HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #2080033890
Bassin de Otra
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 7 administrative regions : Birkenes, Evje og Hornnes, Iveland, Kristiansand, Marnardal +2
Sub-basin area
684km²
Upstream area
3 788,2km²
Discharge
131,99m³/s
Mean elev.
274m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
Outlet (drains to ocean / endorheic)
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Otra1549 km²
- Bassin de Dåselva203 km²
7 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 303.8 km²44.2% of basin
- 163.6 km²23.8% of basin
- 140.9 km²20.5% of basin
- 52.9 km²7.7% of basin
- 16.5 km²2.4% of basin
- 9.3 km²1.4% of basin
- 0.6 km²0.1% of basin
16 intersecting protected areas
Paulen
IUCN Not ReportedEmerald Network
5.49 km² overlap
Paulen
IUCN IaNature Reserve
5.49 km² overlap
Oksla
IUCN IaNature Reserve
4.00 km² overlap
Kristiansand kommuneskog
IUCN Not ReportedZoological Protection of Species
3.28 km² overlap
Skråstadheia
IUCN IaNature Reserve
2.08 km² overlap
Skråstadheia
IUCN Not ReportedEmerald Network
2.08 km² overlap
Knudansheia
IUCN IaNature Reserve
1.01 km² overlap
Hålandsheia
IUCN IaNature Reserve
0.95 km² overlap
Kile
IUCN IaNature Reserve
0.25 km² overlap
7 more protected areassorted by overlap area
Langåsen
IUCN IaNature Reserve
0.25 km² overlap
Melandsmyrane
IUCN IaNature Reserve
0.20 km² overlap
Indre Linvannet
IUCN IaNature Reserve
0.19 km² overlap
Kalkheia
IUCN VProtected Landscape
0.19 km² overlap
Farmyrane
IUCN IaNature Reserve
0.17 km² overlap
Åsheim
IUCN Not ReportedNatural Monument
0.00 km² overlap
Gimlemoen
IUCN Not ReportedNatural Monument
0.00 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
6 271 distinct species · 92 750 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 Otra : 24 espèces reliées par 109 interactions GloBI sur 5 types (connectance 16.4%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 13 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°
5,7°C
Annual rain
1 380mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,68
Runoff
1 236mm/an
PET
436mm
AET
428mm
Mean slope
6,4°
Water table
284cm
Forest
91%
Crops
2%
Urban
1%
Protected
2%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)