HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #2080387860
Bassin de Rhein
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 4 administrative regions : Bottrop, Duisburg, Oberhausen, Wesel
Sub-basin area
427,9km²
Upstream area
153 686,6km²
Discharge
2 304,32m³/s
Mean elev.
31m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Rhein732 km²
- Bassin de Verbindungskanal zur Ruhr27 km²
4 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- Wesel306.5 km²71.4% of basin
- Duisburg82.5 km²19.2% of basin
- Oberhausen27.8 km²6.5% of basin
- Bottrop12.6 km²2.9% of basin
30 intersecting protected areas
Vogelschutzgebiet 'Unterer Niederrhein'
IUCN Not ReportedSpecial Protection Area (Birds Directive)
54.87 km² overlap
Unterer Niederrhein
IUCN Not ReportedWetland of International Importance (Ramsar Site)
33.80 km² overlap
Landscape Protection Area
10.68 km² overlap
Landscape Protection Area
8.37 km² overlap
Nature Reserve
8.01 km² overlap
Landscape Protection Area
7.16 km² overlap
Kirchheller Heide und Hiesfelder Wald
IUCN Not ReportedSpecial Areas of Conservation (Habitats Directive)
7.09 km² overlap
Landscape Protection Area
6.71 km² overlap
NSG Momm-Niederung
IUCN IVNature Reserve
5.94 km² overlap
21 more protected areassorted by overlap area
NSG Rheinaue Walsum
IUCN IVNature Reserve
5.58 km² overlap
Nature Reserve
5.35 km² overlap
NSG Rheinaue Walsum
IUCN Not ReportedSpecial Areas of Conservation (Habitats Directive)
5.21 km² overlap
Landscape Protection Area
4.49 km² overlap
Landscape Protection Area
4.39 km² overlap
LSG-Binsheimer Feld
IUCN VLandscape Protection Area
4.12 km² overlap
NSG Hiesfelder Wald
IUCN IVNature Reserve
4.10 km² overlap
NSG Kirchheller Heide
IUCN IVNature Reserve
4.00 km² overlap
NSG Rheinvorland im Orsoyer Rheinbogen, mit Erweiterung
IUCN Not ReportedSpecial Areas of Conservation (Habitats Directive)
3.97 km² overlap
Landscape Protection Area
3.41 km² overlap
Landscape Protection Area
3.37 km² overlap
Nature Reserve
3.25 km² overlap
Landscape Protection Area
3.24 km² overlap
Landscape Protection Area
3.07 km² overlap
Landscape Protection Area
3.06 km² overlap
LSG-Kirchheller Heide
IUCN VLandscape Protection Area
3.01 km² overlap
Landscape Protection Area
2.74 km² overlap
Landscape Protection Area
2.52 km² overlap
LSG-Oberlohberg
IUCN VLandscape Protection Area
2.40 km² overlap
Rhein-Fischschutzzonen zwischen Emmerich und Bad Honnef
IUCN Not ReportedSpecial Areas of Conservation (Habitats Directive)
2.33 km² overlap
LSG-Wiesfurthgraben, Klein Hugengraben, Dong, Anrathskanal, Parsick-, Vinnbruch-, Landwehrgraben
IUCN VLandscape Protection Area
2.31 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
5 462 distinct species · 130 258 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 43 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 Rhein : 32 espèces dont 1 patrimoniale (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 106 interactions GloBI sur 5 types (connectance 11.7%, 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°
10,0°C
Annual rain
797mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,07
Runoff
282mm/an
PET
742mm
AET
575mm
Mean slope
0,7°
Water table
51cm
Forest
8%
Crops
21%
Urban
71%
Protected
42%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)