HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #2080295550
Bassin de Minija
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 : Kretingos, Plungės
Sub-basin area
125,5km²
Upstream area
845km²
Discharge
13,39m³/s
Mean elev.
85m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Minija499 km²
- Bassin de Babrungas221 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 102.0 km²80.9% of basin
- 24.1 km²19.1% of basin
8 intersecting protected areas
State Park
16.61 km² overlap
Minijos slėnis ties Dyburiais
IUCN Not ReportedSpecial Areas of Conservation (Habitats Directive)
7.35 km² overlap
Minijos upė
IUCN Not ReportedSpecial Areas of Conservation (Habitats Directive)
2.75 km² overlap
Nature Reserve
2.56 km² overlap
Minijos upės slėnis
IUCN Not ReportedSpecial Protection Area (Birds Directive)
1.70 km² overlap
State Park
1.03 km² overlap
Žemaitijos nacionalinis parkas
IUCN Not ReportedSpecial Protection Area (Birds Directive)
0.96 km² overlap
Žemaitijos nacionalinis parkas
IUCN Not ReportedSite of Community Importance (Habitats Directive)
0.96 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
467 distinct species · 767 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 Minija : 24 espèces dont 1 patrimoniale (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 42 interactions GloBI sur 5 types (connectance 9.7%, 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°
6,4°C
Annual rain
774mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,24
Runoff
480mm/an
PET
585mm
AET
469mm
Mean slope
1,3°
Water table
73cm
Forest
4%
Crops
62%
Urban
0%
Protected
16%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)