HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #2080382710
Bassin de Saale
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 : Anhalt-Bitterfeld, Halle (Saale), Harz, Mansfeld-Südharz, Nordsachsen +2
Sub-basin area
2 661,4km²
Upstream area
20 148,5km²
Discharge
109,04m³/s
Mean elev.
159m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Saale998 km²
- Bassin de Luppe182 km²
7 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 952.2 km²35.6% of basin
- 798.6 km²29.9% of basin
- 427.6 km²16.0% of basin
- 242.6 km²9.1% of basin
- Halle (Saale)135.8 km²5.1% of basin
- 73.5 km²2.8% of basin
- 41.3 km²1.5% of basin
30 intersecting protected areas
Harz
IUCN VLandscape Protection Area
226.60 km² overlap
Saaletal
IUCN VLandscape Protection Area
73.33 km² overlap
Landscape Protection Area
68.33 km² overlap
Landscape Protection Area
45.40 km² overlap
Saale
IUCN VLandscape Protection Area
44.06 km² overlap
Süßer und Salziger See
IUCN VLandscape Protection Area
41.86 km² overlap
Kaarstlandschaft Südharz
IUCN Not Assignedbiosphere reserve
31.15 km² overlap
Karstlandschaft Südharz, Entwicklungszone
IUCN Not Assignedbiosphere reserve - transition area
30.93 km² overlap
Saale-Elster-Aue südlich Halle
IUCN Not ReportedSpecial Protection Area (Birds Directive)
26.24 km² overlap
21 more protected areassorted by overlap area
Harz
IUCN VLandscape Protection Area
24.48 km² overlap
Landscape Protection Area
23.42 km² overlap
Saaletal
IUCN VLandscape Protection Area
23.05 km² overlap
Petersberg
IUCN VLandscape Protection Area
21.83 km² overlap
Unstrut-Triasland
IUCN VLandscape Protection Area
20.22 km² overlap
Saale-, Elster-, Luppe-Aue zwischen Merseburg und Halle
IUCN Not ReportedSpecial Areas of Conservation (Habitats Directive)
14.27 km² overlap
Laweketal
IUCN VLandscape Protection Area
13.63 km² overlap
Elster-Luppe-Aue
IUCN VLandscape Protection Area
12.99 km² overlap
Fuhneaue
IUCN VLandscape Protection Area
11.66 km² overlap
Landscape Protection Area
11.45 km² overlap
Fuhneaue
IUCN VLandscape Protection Area
11.35 km² overlap
Fuhneaue
IUCN VLandscape Protection Area
9.09 km² overlap
Saale
IUCN VLandscape Protection Area
8.88 km² overlap
Salzatal
IUCN VLandscape Protection Area
8.69 km² overlap
Porphyrkuppenlandschaft nordwestlich Halle
IUCN Not ReportedSpecial Areas of Conservation (Habitats Directive)
8.19 km² overlap
Saale-Elster-Aue bei Halle
IUCN IVNature Reserve
7.57 km² overlap
Ziegelrodaer Buntsandsteinplateau
IUCN Not ReportedSpecial Areas of Conservation (Habitats Directive)
7.49 km² overlap
Dölauer Heide
IUCN VLandscape Protection Area
7.03 km² overlap
Dölauer Heide und Lindbusch bei Halle
IUCN Not ReportedSpecial Areas of Conservation (Habitats Directive)
7.00 km² overlap
Salziger See und Salzatal
IUCN Not ReportedSpecial Protection Area (Birds Directive)
6.50 km² overlap
Weitzschkerbachtal
IUCN VLandscape Protection Area
6.32 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
8 465 distinct species · 262 118 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 Saale : 24 espèces dont 1 patrimoniale (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 106 interactions GloBI sur 6 types (connectance 17.8%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 11 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°
8,7°C
Annual rain
522mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,29
Runoff
115mm/an
PET
733mm
AET
445mm
Mean slope
1,8°
Water table
192cm
Forest
4%
Crops
56%
Urban
10%
Protected
28%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)