HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #2080205810
Bassin de Otta
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 2 administrative regions : Lom, Vågå
Sub-basin area
336,3km²
Upstream area
336,7km²
Discharge
5,43m³/s
Mean elev.
1 217m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 256.1 km²75.7% of basin
- 82.2 km²24.3% of basin
4 intersecting protected areas
Jotunheimen og Utladalen
IUCN Not ReportedEmerald Network
13.29 km² overlap
Jotunheimen
IUCN IINational Park
13.29 km² overlap
Smådalsvatni
IUCN Not ReportedEmerald Network
5.94 km² overlap
Smådalsvatni
IUCN IaNature Reserve
5.94 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
2 207 distinct species · 17 087 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 30 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 Otta : 25 espèces dont 2 patrimoniales (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 58 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 12.5%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 6 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°
-1,4°C
Annual rain
835mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,48
Runoff
521mm/an
PET
411mm
AET
373mm
Mean slope
12,2°
Water table
466cm
Forest
29%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
6%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)