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
Ecological tissue
Graphe en cours d’indexation
Calcul du tissu écologique de cette entité.
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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)