HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #2080256560
Bassin de Emajõgi
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 28 administrative regions : Ahja, Alatskivi, Elva, Haaslava, Jõgeva (commune) +23
Sub-basin area
2 359,2km²
Upstream area
8 982,1km²
Discharge
73,61m³/s
Mean elev.
70m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Pedja jõgi2075 km²
- Bassin de Emajõgi136 km²
28 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- TartuTartu · Estonia337.8 km²14.2% of basin
- VaraTartu · Estonia235.8 km²9.9% of basin
- KambjaTartu · Estonia187.8 km²7.9% of basin
- NõoTartu · Estonia169.2 km²7.1% of basin
- LuunjaTartu · Estonia131.8 km²5.6% of basin
- TähtvereTartu · Estonia115.0 km²4.8% of basin
- HaaslavaTartu · Estonia109.6 km²4.6% of basin
- TabivereJõgeva · Estonia101.1 km²4.3% of basin
20 moreFull L2 list
- Palupera99.4 km² · 4.2%
- Mäksa97.0 km² · 4.1%
- Palamuse96.6 km² · 4.1%
- Puhja92.3 km² · 3.9%
- Ülenurme86.3 km² · 3.6%
- Laeva82.3 km² · 3.5%
- Konguta73.4 km² · 3.1%
- Puhajarve68.6 km² · 2.9%
- Võnnu53.3 km² · 2.2%
- Valgjärve47.1 km² · 2.0%
- Kõlleste43.2 km² · 1.8%
- Rõngu35.2 km² · 1.5%
- Vastse-Kuuste27.9 km² · 1.2%
- Alatskivi26.7 km² · 1.1%
- Jõgeva (commune)18.8 km² · 0.8%
- Ahja14.2 km² · 0.6%
- Elva11.0 km² · 0.5%
- Peipsiääre7.2 km² · 0.3%
- Puka2.2 km² · 0.1%
- Pala0.6 km² · 0.0%
30 intersecting protected areas
Otepää
IUCN Not ReportedSpecial Areas of Conservation (Habitats Directive)
101.82 km² overlap
Otepää
IUCN Not ReportedSpecial Protection Area (Birds Directive)
101.82 km² overlap
Otepää looduspark
IUCN Not AssignedProtected landscape (nature park)
100.57 km² overlap
Vooremaa maastikukaitseala
IUCN Not AssignedProtected landscape (nature park)
95.69 km² overlap
Limited management zone of protected landscape
93.35 km² overlap
Peipsiveere looduskaitseala
IUCN Not AssignedNature reserve
53.29 km² overlap
Peipsiveere
IUCN Not ReportedSpecial Protection Area (Birds Directive)
53.29 km² overlap
Peipsiveere
IUCN IaWetland of International Importance (Ramsar Site)
53.29 km² overlap
Peipsiveere
IUCN Not ReportedSpecial Areas of Conservation (Habitats Directive)
53.29 km² overlap
21 more protected areassorted by overlap area
Managed conservation zone of nature reserve
48.04 km² overlap
Alam-Pedja
IUCN Not ReportedSpecial Protection Area (Birds Directive)
41.88 km² overlap
Alam-Pedja
IUCN Not ReportedSpecial Areas of Conservation (Habitats Directive)
41.88 km² overlap
Alam-Pedja
IUCN IaWetland of International Importance (Ramsar Site)
41.20 km² overlap
Alam-Pedja looduskaitseala
IUCN Not AssignedNature reserve
41.18 km² overlap
Otepää LP, Otepää pv.
IUCN VLimited management zone of protected landscape
40.24 km² overlap
Vooremaa
IUCN Not ReportedSpecial Protection Area (Birds Directive)
37.53 km² overlap
Kärevere
IUCN Not ReportedSpecial Protection Area (Birds Directive)
25.00 km² overlap
Kärevere
IUCN Not ReportedSpecial Areas of Conservation (Habitats Directive)
25.00 km² overlap
Otepää LP, Mägestiku pv.
IUCN VLimited management zone of protected landscape
21.57 km² overlap
Vooremaa järvede
IUCN Not ReportedSpecial Areas of Conservation (Habitats Directive)
21.08 km² overlap
Keeri-Karijärve
IUCN Not ReportedSpecial Areas of Conservation (Habitats Directive)
19.36 km² overlap
Keeri-Karijärve looduskaitseala
IUCN Not AssignedNature reserve
19.20 km² overlap
Kärevere looduskaitseala
IUCN Not AssignedNature reserve
17.89 km² overlap
Managed conservation zone of nature reserve
15.37 km² overlap
Limited management zone of protected landscape
15.20 km² overlap
Limited management zone of nature reserve
14.98 km² overlap
Elva
IUCN Not ReportedSpecial Areas of Conservation (Habitats Directive)
10.73 km² overlap
Elva maastikukaitseala
IUCN Not AssignedProtected landscape (nature park)
10.64 km² overlap
Strict nature reserve of nature reserve
8.80 km² overlap
Ropka-Ihaste looduskaitseala
IUCN Not AssignedNature reserve
7.91 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
13 577 distinct species · 723 709 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 Emajõgi : 26 espèces dont 2 patrimoniales (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 57 interactions GloBI sur 6 types (connectance 9.6%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 9 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°
5,0°C
Annual rain
608mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,05
Runoff
246mm/an
PET
575mm
AET
444mm
Mean slope
1,1°
Water table
89cm
Forest
21%
Crops
38%
Urban
2%
Protected
16%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)