HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #2080399800
Bassin de Erft
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 9 administrative regions : Ahrweiler, Bonn, Düren, Düsseldorf, Euskirchen +4
Sub-basin area
1 750,2km²
Upstream area
1 750,5km²
Discharge
15,85m³/s
Mean elev.
170m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
9 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- Euskirchen575.9 km²32.8% of basin
- 477.4 km²27.2% of basin
- Düren265.7 km²15.1% of basin
- 216.3 km²12.3% of basin
- 188.1 km²10.7% of basin
- 29.4 km²1.7% of basin
- Bonn2.4 km²0.1% of basin
- Heinsberg1.0 km²0.1% of basin
1 moreFull L2 list
- Düsseldorf0.1 km² · 0.0%
30 intersecting protected areas
Landscape Protection Area
50.66 km² overlap
Landscape Protection Area
43.72 km² overlap
Landscape Protection Area
27.93 km² overlap
LSG-Rheinbacher Osteifel
IUCN VLandscape Protection Area
21.29 km² overlap
LSG-Flamersheimer Wald
IUCN VLandscape Protection Area
18.69 km² overlap
Landscape Protection Area
17.66 km² overlap
LSG-LP Bornheim
IUCN VLandscape Protection Area
17.50 km² overlap
Landscape Protection Area
16.55 km² overlap
LSG-Waldseengebiet Ville
IUCN VLandscape Protection Area
16.34 km² overlap
21 more protected areassorted by overlap area
Landscape Protection Area
14.39 km² overlap
Landscape Protection Area
14.22 km² overlap
LSG-Hambacher Forst
IUCN VLandscape Protection Area
13.27 km² overlap
Landscape Protection Area
12.81 km² overlap
LSG-Erftniederung
IUCN VLandscape Protection Area
11.34 km² overlap
Vogelschutzgebiet Kottenforst-Waldville
IUCN Not ReportedSpecial Protection Area (Birds Directive)
10.88 km² overlap
Landscape Protection Area
10.86 km² overlap
Landscape Protection Area
10.15 km² overlap
NSG Bad Muenstereifeler Wald
IUCN IVNature Reserve
9.97 km² overlap
LSG-Billiger Wald
IUCN VLandscape Protection Area
9.57 km² overlap
Landscape Protection Area
9.05 km² overlap
Landscape Protection Area
8.96 km² overlap
Bad Münstereifeler Wald
IUCN Not ReportedSpecial Areas of Conservation (Habitats Directive)
8.38 km² overlap
Landscape Protection Area
8.25 km² overlap
Waldville
IUCN Not ReportedSpecial Areas of Conservation (Habitats Directive)
8.21 km² overlap
Nationalpark Eifel
IUCN IINational Park
8.16 km² overlap
Rhein-Ahr-Eifel
IUCN VLandscape Protection Area
8.10 km² overlap
Landscape Protection Area
7.94 km² overlap
NSG Waldville
IUCN IVNature Reserve
7.91 km² overlap
LSG-Zingsheimer Wald
IUCN VLandscape Protection Area
7.03 km² overlap
Landscape Protection Area
7.02 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
8 044 distinct species · 272 549 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 30 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 Erft : 18 espèces dont 1 patrimoniale (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 115 interactions GloBI sur 6 types (connectance 21.8%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 15 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°
9,4°C
Annual rain
818mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,10
Runoff
286mm/an
PET
733mm
AET
583mm
Mean slope
1,9°
Water table
121cm
Forest
9%
Crops
50%
Urban
28%
Protected
36%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)