HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #2080184350
Bassin de Orkla
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 : Meldal, Orkdal, Skaun
Sub-basin area
129,6km²
Upstream area
4 748,1km²
Discharge
100,25m³/s
Mean elev.
210m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Orkla481 km²
- Bassin de Svorka307 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 127.0 km²97.4% of basin
- 3.2 km²2.4% of basin
- 0.2 km²0.1% of basin
3 intersecting protected areas
Munklia
IUCN IaNature Reserve
1.80 km² overlap
Midtskogvatnet
IUCN Not ReportedEmerald Network
0.06 km² overlap
Midtskogvatnet
IUCN IaNature Reserve
0.06 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
3 197 distinct species · 78 910 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 32 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 Orkla : 24 espèces dont 1 patrimoniale (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 119 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 24.0%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 8 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°
4,1°C
Annual rain
962mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,51
Runoff
1 025mm/an
PET
467mm
AET
417mm
Mean slope
8,4°
Water table
266cm
Forest
55%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
1%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)