HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #2080392830
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 10 administrative regions : Duisburg, Düsseldorf, Krefeld, Mettmann, Mülheim an der Ruhr +5
Sub-basin area
732,1km²
Upstream area
147 985,8km²
Discharge
2 242,77m³/s
Mean elev.
72m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Rhein2002 km²
- Bassin de Erft1750 km²
10 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- Mettmann237.4 km²32.3% of basin
- Düsseldorf171.9 km²23.4% of basin
- 118.9 km²16.2% of basin
- Duisburg110.9 km²15.1% of basin
- Krefeld59.1 km²8.0% of basin
- Wuppertal17.1 km²2.3% of basin
- Mülheim an der Ruhr15.0 km²2.0% of basin
- Viersen3.1 km²0.4% of basin
2 moreFull L2 list
- Wesel1.5 km² · 0.2%
- Solingen0.0 km² · 0.0%
30 intersecting protected areas
LSG-Hauptterrasse
IUCN VLandscape Protection Area
14.69 km² overlap
LSG-Rheinauen
IUCN VLandscape Protection Area
13.68 km² overlap
Landscape Protection Area
9.76 km² overlap
Landscape Protection Area
8.27 km² overlap
Landscape Protection Area
7.22 km² overlap
Landscape Protection Area
6.91 km² overlap
Landscape Protection Area
6.85 km² overlap
Landscape Protection Area
6.70 km² overlap
Landscape Protection Area
6.40 km² overlap
21 more protected areassorted by overlap area
Landscape Protection Area
6.30 km² overlap
Landscape Protection Area
5.95 km² overlap
LSG-Rheinaue
IUCN VLandscape Protection Area
5.43 km² overlap
Landscape Protection Area
5.11 km² overlap
Landscape Protection Area
4.98 km² overlap
LSG-Angeraue
IUCN VLandscape Protection Area
4.95 km² overlap
LSG-Oberbruch, Grundend
IUCN VLandscape Protection Area
4.89 km² overlap
Landscape Protection Area
4.53 km² overlap
Landscape Protection Area
4.27 km² overlap
Landscape Protection Area
4.24 km² overlap
NSG Angertal <B>
IUCN IVNature Reserve
3.88 km² overlap
Landscape Protection Area
3.78 km² overlap
LSG-Elfrath
IUCN VLandscape Protection Area
3.65 km² overlap
Landscape Protection Area
3.39 km² overlap
Ueberanger Mark
IUCN Not ReportedSpecial Areas of Conservation (Habitats Directive)
3.28 km² overlap
Ilvericher Altrheinschlinge
IUCN Not ReportedSpecial Areas of Conservation (Habitats Directive)
3.11 km² overlap
Nature Reserve
3.09 km² overlap
Landscape Protection Area
3.08 km² overlap
NSG Ueberanger Mark
IUCN IVNature Reserve
3.03 km² overlap
LSG-Elt
IUCN VLandscape Protection Area
3.00 km² overlap
Latumer Bruch mit Buersbach, Stadtgräben und Wasserwerk
IUCN Not ReportedSpecial Areas of Conservation (Habitats Directive)
2.98 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
8 195 distinct species · 421 628 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 45 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 : 35 espèces reliées par 110 interactions GloBI sur 5 types (connectance 11.1%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 10 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
827mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,09
Runoff
290mm/an
PET
754mm
AET
589mm
Mean slope
1,4°
Water table
95cm
Forest
13%
Crops
19%
Urban
79%
Protected
36%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)