HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #2080385760
Bassin de Maas
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 : Bergen, Boxmeer, Deurne, Gennep, Horst aan de Maas +2
Sub-basin area
281,4km²
Upstream area
26 655km²
Discharge
325,95m³/s
Mean elev.
21m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Maas409 km²
- Bassin de Groote Molenbeek178 km²
7 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 122.1 km²43.2% of basin
- 91.9 km²32.5% of basin
- 42.5 km²15.1% of basin
- 11.5 km²4.1% of basin
- 7.0 km²2.5% of basin
- 5.8 km²2.1% of basin
- 1.5 km²0.5% of basin
14 intersecting protected areas
NNN-LI
IUCN Not AssignedNature Reserves owned by professional nature management organizations
53.41 km² overlap
NNN-NB
IUCN Not AssignedNature Reserves owned by professional nature management organizations
22.89 km² overlap
Maasduinen
IUCN IVNature Conservation Act
22.00 km² overlap
Maasduinen
IUCN Not ReportedSpecial Protection Area (Birds Directive)
22.00 km² overlap
Maasduinen
IUCN Not ReportedSpecial Areas of Conservation (Habitats Directive)
22.00 km² overlap
De Maasduinen
IUCN IINational Park
21.05 km² overlap
Boschhuizerbergen
IUCN IVNature Conservation Act
2.77 km² overlap
Boschhuizerbergen
IUCN Not ReportedSpecial Areas of Conservation (Habitats Directive)
2.77 km² overlap
Deurnsche Peel & Mariapeel
IUCN IVWetland of International Importance (Ramsar Site)
0.76 km² overlap
5 more protected areassorted by overlap area
Deurnsche Peel & Mariapeel
IUCN Not ReportedSpecial Protection Area (Birds Directive)
0.76 km² overlap
Deurnsche Peel & Mariapeel
IUCN Not ReportedSpecial Areas of Conservation (Habitats Directive)
0.76 km² overlap
Deurnsche Peel & Mariapeel
IUCN IVNature Conservation Act
0.76 km² overlap
Oeffeltermeent
IUCN Not ReportedSpecial Areas of Conservation (Habitats Directive)
0.10 km² overlap
Oeffelter Meent
IUCN IVNature Conservation Act
0.10 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
9 909 distinct species · 1 087 483 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 36 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 Maas : 29 espèces dont 1 patrimoniale (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 96 interactions GloBI sur 6 types (connectance 15.2%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 7 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°
9,8°C
Annual rain
768mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,06
Runoff
397mm/an
PET
724mm
AET
560mm
Mean slope
0,3°
Water table
22cm
Forest
4%
Crops
35%
Urban
15%
Protected
9%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)