HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #2080399650
Bassin de Rur
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 13 administrative regions across 3 countries : Düren, Echt-Susteren, Euskirchen, Heerlen, Heinsberg +8
Sub-basin area
2 355,2km²
Upstream area
2 355,2km²
Discharge
31,58m³/s
Mean elev.
271m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
13 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 683.3 km²28.9% of basin
- Düren671.4 km²28.4% of basin
- Euskirchen373.5 km²15.8% of basin
- Heinsberg370.0 km²15.7% of basin
- 147.7 km²6.2% of basin
- 62.2 km²2.6% of basin
- 17.7 km²0.7% of basin
- 11.6 km²0.5% of basin
5 moreFull L2 list
- Roermond10.9 km² · 0.5%
- Echt-Susteren9.7 km² · 0.4%
- Viersen5.3 km² · 0.2%
- Heerlen0.5 km² · 0.0%
- Simpelveld0.1 km² · 0.0%
30 intersecting protected areas
Nationalpark Eifel
IUCN IINational Park
100.56 km² overlap
LSG-Aachen
IUCN VLandscape Protection Area
63.11 km² overlap
Vogelschutzgebiet Kermeter-Hetzinger Wald
IUCN Not ReportedSpecial Protection Area (Birds Directive)
45.89 km² overlap
NNN-LI
IUCN Not AssignedNature Reserves owned by professional nature management organizations
43.44 km² overlap
LSG-Schleiden
IUCN VLandscape Protection Area
41.95 km² overlap
LSG-Hellenthaler Wald
IUCN VLandscape Protection Area
39.82 km² overlap
Kermeter
IUCN Not ReportedSpecial Areas of Conservation (Habitats Directive)
34.23 km² overlap
Landscape Protection Area
31.32 km² overlap
Nature Reserve
26.59 km² overlap
21 more protected areassorted by overlap area
Landscape Protection Area
25.81 km² overlap
Camp militaire d'Elsenborn
IUCN Not ReportedSpecial Protection Area (Birds Directive)
25.34 km² overlap
Camp militaire d'Elsenborn
IUCN Not ReportedSpecial Areas of Conservation (Habitats Directive)
25.34 km² overlap
Landscape Protection Area
24.58 km² overlap
Les Hautes Fagnes
IUCN IVWetland of International Importance (Ramsar Site)
23.84 km² overlap
LSG-Dahlem
IUCN VLandscape Protection Area
18.44 km² overlap
De Meinweg
IUCN IINational Park
18.41 km² overlap
LSG-Baaler Riedelland
IUCN VLandscape Protection Area
18.41 km² overlap
Landscape Protection Area
18.30 km² overlap
Meinweg
IUCN IVNature Conservation Act
17.10 km² overlap
Meinweg
IUCN Not ReportedSpecial Areas of Conservation (Habitats Directive)
17.10 km² overlap
Meinweg
IUCN Not ReportedSpecial Protection Area (Birds Directive)
17.10 km² overlap
Landscape Protection Area
16.81 km² overlap
Landscape Protection Area
16.64 km² overlap
DN-LSG_VO_27112007
IUCN VLandscape Protection Area
16.42 km² overlap
Landscape Protection Area
15.33 km² overlap
Landscape Protection Area
15.20 km² overlap
Landscape Protection Area
15.13 km² overlap
Landscape Protection Area
15.00 km² overlap
Landscape Protection Area
13.90 km² overlap
Landscape Protection Area
13.35 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
14 326 distinct species · 1 514 712 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 33 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 Rur : 22 espèces reliées par 104 interactions GloBI sur 6 types (connectance 18.5%, 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°
8,9°C
Annual rain
918mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,22
Runoff
406mm/an
PET
695mm
AET
584mm
Mean slope
3,1°
Water table
173cm
Forest
32%
Crops
29%
Urban
31%
Protected
58%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)