HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #2080401610
Bassin de Orke
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 2 administrative regions : Hochsauerlandkreis, Waldeck-Frankenberg
Sub-basin area
282km²
Upstream area
282,1km²
Discharge
3,25m³/s
Mean elev.
477m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 145.9 km²51.5% of basin
- 137.2 km²48.5% of basin
30 intersecting protected areas
Vogelschutzgebiet 'Medebacher Bucht'
IUCN Not ReportedSpecial Protection Area (Birds Directive)
101.70 km² overlap
LSG-Medebach
IUCN VLandscape Protection Area
41.58 km² overlap
Hessisches Rothaargebirge
IUCN Not ReportedSpecial Protection Area (Birds Directive)
33.15 km² overlap
Waldreservat Glindfeld- Orketal (mit Nebentälern)
IUCN Not ReportedSpecial Areas of Conservation (Habitats Directive)
29.91 km² overlap
Nature Reserve
21.52 km² overlap
Landscape Protection Area
9.22 km² overlap
LSG-Winterberg <Typ A>
IUCN VLandscape Protection Area
8.98 km² overlap
Landscape Protection Area
8.92 km² overlap
Landscape Protection Area
6.21 km² overlap
21 more protected areassorted by overlap area
Oberes Orketal
IUCN Not ReportedSpecial Areas of Conservation (Habitats Directive)
2.69 km² overlap
Landscape Protection Area
2.46 km² overlap
Landscape Protection Area
2.40 km² overlap
Obere Eder
IUCN Not ReportedSpecial Areas of Conservation (Habitats Directive)
2.25 km² overlap
Nature Reserve
2.10 km² overlap
NSG Orketal
IUCN IVNature Reserve
1.98 km² overlap
Auenverbund Eder
IUCN VLandscape Protection Area
1.46 km² overlap
Landscape Protection Area
1.45 km² overlap
Nature Reserve
1.02 km² overlap
Kahle Pön
IUCN Not ReportedSpecial Areas of Conservation (Habitats Directive)
0.97 km² overlap
NSG Gelaengebachtal
IUCN IVNature Reserve
0.96 km² overlap
NSG Kahle Poen
IUCN IVNature Reserve
0.96 km² overlap
NSG Bruehnetal
IUCN IVNature Reserve
0.90 km² overlap
Nature Reserve
0.90 km² overlap
Landscape Protection Area
0.90 km² overlap
NSG Hallebachtal
IUCN IVNature Reserve
0.87 km² overlap
Landscape Protection Area
0.82 km² overlap
Landscape Protection Area
0.78 km² overlap
Landscape Protection Area
0.75 km² overlap
NSG Wamecke - Wilde Aar
IUCN IVNature Reserve
0.66 km² overlap
Landscape Protection Area
0.65 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
2 493 distinct species · 34 880 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 Orke : 16 espèces dont 2 patrimoniales (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 103 interactions GloBI sur 6 types (connectance 19.5%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 17 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°
7,3°C
Annual rain
1 014mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,35
Runoff
362mm/an
PET
649mm
AET
569mm
Mean slope
7,2°
Water table
377cm
Forest
44%
Crops
18%
Urban
0%
Protected
43%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)