HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #2080390270
Bassin de Elbe
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 : Dresden, Elbe-Elster, Leipzig, Meißen, Mittelsachsen +2
Sub-basin area
1 772,9km²
Upstream area
55 068,7km²
Discharge
342,23m³/s
Mean elev.
167m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Elbe491 km²
- Bassin de Ammelsbach382 km²
7 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 777.4 km²43.7% of basin
- 592.3 km²33.3% of basin
- 153.2 km²8.6% of basin
- 104.8 km²5.9% of basin
- 78.0 km²4.4% of basin
- 67.5 km²3.8% of basin
- 6.3 km²0.4% of basin
30 intersecting protected areas
Dahlener Heide
IUCN VLandscape Protection Area
106.71 km² overlap
Landscape Protection Area
80.65 km² overlap
Wermsdorfer Forst
IUCN VLandscape Protection Area
71.02 km² overlap
Landscape Protection Area
53.83 km² overlap
Elbtal zwischen Schöna und Mühlberg
IUCN Not ReportedSpecial Protection Area (Birds Directive)
50.91 km² overlap
Elbaue Torgau
IUCN VLandscape Protection Area
50.06 km² overlap
Elbaue und Teichgebiete bei Torgau
IUCN Not ReportedSpecial Protection Area (Birds Directive)
49.66 km² overlap
Dahlener Heide
IUCN Not ReportedSpecial Protection Area (Birds Directive)
33.67 km² overlap
Landscape Protection Area
31.58 km² overlap
21 more protected areassorted by overlap area
Linkselbische Bachtäler
IUCN Not ReportedSpecial Protection Area (Birds Directive)
30.31 km² overlap
Tharandter Wald
IUCN VLandscape Protection Area
30.21 km² overlap
Triebischtäler
IUCN VLandscape Protection Area
28.05 km² overlap
Elbtal zwischen Schöna und Mühlberg
IUCN Not ReportedSpecial Areas of Conservation (Habitats Directive)
25.90 km² overlap
Elbaue Mühlberg
IUCN VLandscape Protection Area
24.12 km² overlap
Wermsdorfer Teich- und Waldgebiet
IUCN Not ReportedSpecial Protection Area (Birds Directive)
23.31 km² overlap
Elbtal zwischen Mühlberg und Greudnitz
IUCN Not ReportedSpecial Areas of Conservation (Habitats Directive)
22.18 km² overlap
Nassau
IUCN VLandscape Protection Area
14.07 km² overlap
Gohrischheide
IUCN Not ReportedSpecial Protection Area (Birds Directive)
12.45 km² overlap
Triebischtäler
IUCN Not ReportedSpecial Areas of Conservation (Habitats Directive)
11.77 km² overlap
Döllnitz und Mutzschener Wasser
IUCN Not ReportedSpecial Areas of Conservation (Habitats Directive)
10.59 km² overlap
Linkselbische Täler zwischen Dresden und Meißen
IUCN Not ReportedSpecial Areas of Conservation (Habitats Directive)
8.96 km² overlap
Nature Reserve
8.88 km² overlap
Jahnatal
IUCN VLandscape Protection Area
8.87 km² overlap
Gohrischheide und Elbniederterrasse Zeithain
IUCN Not ReportedSpecial Areas of Conservation (Habitats Directive)
8.74 km² overlap
Seußlitzer Elbhügelland und Golk
IUCN Not ReportedSpecial Protection Area (Birds Directive)
8.61 km² overlap
Dahle und Tauschke
IUCN Not ReportedSpecial Areas of Conservation (Habitats Directive)
7.88 km² overlap
Liebschützer Höhenzug
IUCN VLandscape Protection Area
6.65 km² overlap
Täler südöstlich Lommatzsch
IUCN Not ReportedSpecial Areas of Conservation (Habitats Directive)
6.35 km² overlap
Laubwälder der Dahlener Heide
IUCN Not ReportedSpecial Areas of Conservation (Habitats Directive)
5.28 km² overlap
Glaubitzer Wald
IUCN VLandscape Protection Area
4.82 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
8 905 distinct species · 200 556 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 Elbe : 25 espèces reliées par 115 interactions GloBI sur 5 types (connectance 17.3%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 12 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
593mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,19
Runoff
191mm/an
PET
731mm
AET
502mm
Mean slope
1,8°
Water table
162cm
Forest
5%
Crops
58%
Urban
12%
Protected
27%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)