HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #2080679660
Bassin de Río Segura
A watershed (drainage basin) is not a body of water — it is the land area where rainfall converges towards a single river that eventually reaches the sea (or an endorheic basin). Boundaries follow ridgelines.
Crosses 4 administrative regions : Albacete, Granada, Jaén, Murcia
Sub-basin area
2 677,4km²
Upstream area
2 677,4km²
Discharge
8,59m³/s
Mean elev.
1 080m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
4 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 1836.0 km²68.5% of basin
- 584.1 km²21.8% of basin
- 202.6 km²7.6% of basin
- 56.4 km²2.1% of basin
25 intersecting protected areas
Sierra de Alcaraz y Segura y cañones del Segura y del Mundo
IUCN Not ReportedSpecial Protection Area (Birds Directive)
934.85 km² overlap
Sierra de Alcaraz y Segura y cañones del Segura y del Mundo
IUCN Not ReportedSpecial Areas of Conservation (Habitats Directive)
934.85 km² overlap
Sierras de Cazorla, Segura y Las Villas
IUCN Not ReportedSpecial Protection Area (Birds Directive)
583.95 km² overlap
Sierras de Cazorla, Segura y Las Villas
IUCN Not ReportedSpecial Areas of Conservation (Habitats Directive)
583.95 km² overlap
Natura 2000
583.95 km² overlap
Natural Park
582.38 km² overlap
Natural Park
92.57 km² overlap
Sierras del Nordeste
IUCN IVNatura 2000
55.62 km² overlap
Sierra de La Sagra
IUCN Not ReportedSpecial Areas of Conservation (Habitats Directive)
55.49 km² overlap
16 more protected areassorted by overlap area
Sierra de la Muela
IUCN Not ReportedSpecial Areas of Conservation (Habitats Directive)
30.93 km² overlap
Sierras y Vega Alta del Segura y Ríos Alhárabe y Moratalla
IUCN Not ReportedSpecial Areas of Conservation (Habitats Directive)
26.98 km² overlap
Sierra de Villafuerte
IUCN Not ReportedSpecial Areas of Conservation (Habitats Directive)
26.64 km² overlap
Ardal y Tinjarra
IUCN IVMicroreserve
21.55 km² overlap
Sierra de las Cabras
IUCN IbNature Reserve
19.28 km² overlap
Sierra de Moratalla
IUCN Not ReportedSpecial Protection Area (Birds Directive)
11.96 km² overlap
Revolcadores
IUCN Not ReportedSpecial Areas of Conservation (Habitats Directive)
9.60 km² overlap
Cerro de Rala
IUCN IVMicroreserve
5.92 km² overlap
Yesares de Hellín
IUCN IVMicroreserve
5.48 km² overlap
Rambla de la Rogativa
IUCN Not ReportedSpecial Areas of Conservation (Habitats Directive)
2.95 km² overlap
Peñas Coloradas
IUCN IVMicroreserve
1.87 km² overlap
Cuerda de la Melera
IUCN IVMicroreserve
0.99 km² overlap
Sierra de Castril
IUCN IVNatura 2000
0.54 km² overlap
Sierra de Castril
IUCN VNatural Park
0.54 km² overlap
Sierra de Castril
IUCN Not ReportedSpecial Protection Area (Birds Directive)
0.54 km² overlap
Sierra de Castril
IUCN Not ReportedSpecial Areas of Conservation (Habitats Directive)
0.54 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
4 766 distinct species · 166 147 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 36 species (selected proportionally per kingdom among those with at least one documented interaction here) to keep the graph readable. Hover for details, click to explore the full ecosystem of a species.
ℹ️ The territory contains many more species than displayed and all their documented interactions: the graph is intentionally the structural skeleton (top-N species by composite local score, edges filtered by Serrano 2009 disparity filter α=0.2).
Indicateurs du tissu écologique
Tissu écologique de Bassin de Río Segura : 23 espèces reliées par 90 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 12.8%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 15 bulles taxonomiques (cascade genre/famille GloBI, ≥3 espèces).
Comparaison sur la connectance du réseau local complet vs distribution nationale (toutes les communes françaises).
Hydroclimate (BasinATLAS lev08)
Mean T°
12,8°C
Annual rain
490mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,57
Runoff
88mm/an
PET
1 147mm
AET
418mm
Mean slope
11,3°
Water table
722cm
Forest
29%
Crops
26%
Urban
0%
Protected
27%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)