HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #2080033850
Bassin de Lilleelv
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 3 administrative regions : Arendal, Froland, Grimstad
Sub-basin area
106,3km²
Upstream area
4 024,4km²
Discharge
101,41m³/s
Mean elev.
67m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
Outlet (drains to ocean / endorheic)
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Nidelva578 km²
- Bassin de Hålandsbekken203 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 82.4 km²77.1% of basin
- 14.2 km²13.3% of basin
- 10.3 km²9.6% of basin
2 intersecting protected areas
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
4 872 distinct species · 107 383 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 35 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 Lilleelv : 24 espèces dont 1 patrimoniale (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 95 interactions GloBI sur 5 types (connectance 15.1%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 12 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°
7,0°C
Annual rain
1 053mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,54
Runoff
910mm/an
PET
488mm
AET
448mm
Mean slope
4,0°
Water table
195cm
Forest
54%
Crops
16%
Urban
19%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)