HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #2080394490
Bassin de Saale
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 : Burgenlandkreis, Leipzig, Saale-Holzland-Kreis, Saalekreis
Sub-basin area
998,1km²
Upstream area
12 401,2km²
Discharge
71,82m³/s
Mean elev.
167m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Unstrut545 km²
- Bassin de Saale61 km²
4 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 535.2 km²53.4% of basin
- 322.0 km²32.1% of basin
- 109.7 km²10.9% of basin
- 35.0 km²3.5% of basin
30 intersecting protected areas
Saale
IUCN VLandscape Protection Area
66.85 km² overlap
Saaletal
IUCN VLandscape Protection Area
65.80 km² overlap
Saale
IUCN VLandscape Protection Area
19.55 km² overlap
Gröster Berge
IUCN VLandscape Protection Area
19.37 km² overlap
Müchelner Kalktäler
IUCN VLandscape Protection Area
13.18 km² overlap
Landscape Protection Area
12.08 km² overlap
Saale-Elster-Aue südlich Halle
IUCN Not ReportedSpecial Protection Area (Birds Directive)
10.73 km² overlap
Nature Reserve
10.23 km² overlap
Nature Reserve
3.50 km² overlap
21 more protected areassorted by overlap area
Müchelholz, Müchelner Kalktäler und Hirschgrund bei Branderoda
IUCN Not ReportedSpecial Areas of Conservation (Habitats Directive)
2.94 km² overlap
Beuche - Wethautal
IUCN Not ReportedSpecial Areas of Conservation (Habitats Directive)
2.93 km² overlap
Saalehänge bei Goseck
IUCN Not ReportedSpecial Areas of Conservation (Habitats Directive)
2.30 km² overlap
Floßgraben
IUCN VLandscape Protection Area
2.27 km² overlap
Bergbaufolgelandschaft Kayna Süd
IUCN Not ReportedSpecial Protection Area (Birds Directive)
2.22 km² overlap
Leinewehtal
IUCN VLandscape Protection Area
2.16 km² overlap
Unstrut-Triasland
IUCN VLandscape Protection Area
1.81 km² overlap
Geiselaue
IUCN VLandscape Protection Area
1.58 km² overlap
Saaleaue bei Goseck
IUCN IVNature Reserve
1.33 km² overlap
Elster-Luppe-Aue
IUCN VLandscape Protection Area
0.75 km² overlap
Saale-, Elster-, Luppe-Aue zwischen Merseburg und Halle
IUCN Not ReportedSpecial Areas of Conservation (Habitats Directive)
0.70 km² overlap
Heideteiche bei Osterfeld
IUCN IVNature Reserve
0.67 km² overlap
Müchelholz
IUCN IVNature Reserve
0.60 km² overlap
Geiselniederung westlich Merseburg
IUCN Not ReportedSpecial Areas of Conservation (Habitats Directive)
0.57 km² overlap
Nature Reserve
0.52 km² overlap
Halbberge bei Mertendorf
IUCN IVNature Reserve
0.50 km² overlap
Hainspitzer See
IUCN VLandscape Protection Area
0.42 km² overlap
Wiesengebiet westlich Schladebach
IUCN Not ReportedSpecial Areas of Conservation (Habitats Directive)
0.35 km² overlap
Waldauer Heideteich- und Auwaldgebiet
IUCN Not ReportedSpecial Areas of Conservation (Habitats Directive)
0.26 km² overlap
Hainspitzer See und Park
IUCN Not ReportedSpecial Areas of Conservation (Habitats Directive)
0.22 km² overlap
Maibachtal
IUCN VLandscape Protection Area
0.19 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
4 028 distinct species · 89 042 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 37 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 Saale : 30 espèces dont 1 patrimoniale (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 87 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 13.1%, 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°
8,7°C
Annual rain
534mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,28
Runoff
127mm/an
PET
742mm
AET
457mm
Mean slope
1,7°
Water table
201cm
Forest
1%
Crops
54%
Urban
10%
Protected
22%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)