HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #2080385650
Bassin de Niers
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 12 administrative regions across 2 countries : Bergen, Boxmeer, Düren, Gennep, Heinsberg +7
Sub-basin area
1 610,4km²
Upstream area
1 610,5km²
Discharge
17,59m³/s
Mean elev.
40m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
12 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- Kleve646.2 km²40.0% of basin
- Viersen402.7 km²24.9% of basin
- Mönchengladbach133.3 km²8.2% of basin
- 132.3 km²8.2% of basin
- Wesel119.4 km²7.4% of basin
- Krefeld77.6 km²4.8% of basin
- Heinsberg47.7 km²3.0% of basin
- 31.0 km²1.9% of basin
4 moreFull L2 list
- Bergen22.8 km² · 1.4%
- Düren3.2 km² · 0.2%
- Boxmeer0.3 km² · 0.0%
- Rhein-Erft-Kreis0.0 km² · 0.0%
30 intersecting protected areas
Landscape Protection Area
65.73 km² overlap
Landscape Protection Area
26.58 km² overlap
Landscape Protection Area
25.82 km² overlap
Landscape Protection Area
25.38 km² overlap
Landscape Protection Area
22.01 km² overlap
Vogelschutzgebiet 'Schwalm-Nette-Platte mit Grenzwald u. Meinweg'
IUCN Not ReportedSpecial Protection Area (Birds Directive)
19.11 km² overlap
Landscape Protection Area
17.25 km² overlap
Landscape Protection Area
16.51 km² overlap
LSG-Niersniederung
IUCN VLandscape Protection Area
15.64 km² overlap
21 more protected areassorted by overlap area
LSG Kerkener Bruch
IUCN VLandscape Protection Area
15.28 km² overlap
Landscape Protection Area
13.58 km² overlap
Krickenbecker Seen - Kl. De Witt-See
IUCN Not ReportedSpecial Areas of Conservation (Habitats Directive)
12.13 km² overlap
Landscape Protection Area
11.87 km² overlap
NNN-LI
IUCN Not AssignedNature Reserves owned by professional nature management organizations
10.56 km² overlap
LSG-Suechtelner Hoehen
IUCN VLandscape Protection Area
9.93 km² overlap
Landscape Protection Area
9.75 km² overlap
Landscape Protection Area
9.08 km² overlap
Nature Reserve
7.19 km² overlap
LSG-Benrad
IUCN VLandscape Protection Area
7.00 km² overlap
Landscape Protection Area
6.68 km² overlap
LSG-Oberbenrad-Forstwald
IUCN VLandscape Protection Area
6.23 km² overlap
Landscape Protection Area
5.87 km² overlap
NSG Fleuthkuhlen
IUCN IVNature Reserve
5.86 km² overlap
Fleuthkuhlen
IUCN Not ReportedSpecial Areas of Conservation (Habitats Directive)
5.84 km² overlap
LSG Eyller Bruch
IUCN VLandscape Protection Area
5.55 km² overlap
LSG Schwarzes Bruch
IUCN VLandscape Protection Area
5.54 km² overlap
Landscape Protection Area
5.45 km² overlap
Landscape Protection Area
5.43 km² overlap
Nature Reserve
5.43 km² overlap
LSG-Niepkuhlen
IUCN VLandscape Protection Area
5.33 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
8 755 distinct species · 706 756 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 38 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 Niers : 26 espèces dont 1 patrimoniale (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 95 interactions GloBI sur 6 types (connectance 12.8%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 13 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°
10,0°C
Annual rain
786mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,06
Runoff
342mm/an
PET
742mm
AET
574mm
Mean slope
0,5°
Water table
30cm
Forest
4%
Crops
46%
Urban
40%
Protected
37%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)