HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #2080410780
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 5 administrative regions : Ilm-Kreis, Saale-Holzland-Kreis, Saale-Orla-Kreis, Saalfeld-Rudolstadt, Weimarer Land
Sub-basin area
286,3km²
Upstream area
2 935,5km²
Discharge
20,84m³/s
Mean elev.
341m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Schwarza514 km²
- Bassin de Lache111 km²
5 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 244.5 km²85.1% of basin
- 20.0 km²7.0% of basin
- 11.6 km²4.0% of basin
- 8.5 km²3.0% of basin
- 2.7 km²0.9% of basin
14 intersecting protected areas
Vordere und Hintere Heide südlich Uhlstädt
IUCN Not ReportedSpecial Protection Area (Birds Directive)
45.49 km² overlap
Muschelkalkhänge der westlichen Saaleplatte
IUCN Not ReportedSpecial Protection Area (Birds Directive)
20.51 km² overlap
Muschelkalkhänge um Teichel und Großkochberg
IUCN Not ReportedSpecial Areas of Conservation (Habitats Directive)
10.26 km² overlap
Uhlstädter Heide
IUCN IVNature Reserve
9.61 km² overlap
Muschelkalk-Landschaft westlich Rudolstadt
IUCN Not ReportedSpecial Protection Area (Birds Directive)
5.36 km² overlap
Muschelkalk-Landschaft westlich Rudolstadt
IUCN Not ReportedSpecial Areas of Conservation (Habitats Directive)
3.41 km² overlap
Hermannstal
IUCN VLandscape Protection Area
2.49 km² overlap
Kalmberg
IUCN Not ReportedSpecial Areas of Conservation (Habitats Directive)
2.41 km² overlap
Dissau und Steinberg
IUCN IVNature Reserve
1.34 km² overlap
5 more protected areassorted by overlap area
Kulm
IUCN VLandscape Protection Area
1.06 km² overlap
Landscape Protection Area
0.53 km² overlap
Eichberg und Talgrube
IUCN IVNature Reserve
0.22 km² overlap
GLB In den Nikolauswiesen
IUCN Not ReportedSpecial Areas of Conservation (Habitats Directive)
0.00 km² overlap
Fledermausquartiere Orlamünde
IUCN Not ReportedSpecial Areas of Conservation (Habitats Directive)
0.00 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
4 094 distinct species · 135 762 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 36 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 : 25 espèces reliées par 96 interactions GloBI sur 6 types (connectance 15.2%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 11 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°
7,8°C
Annual rain
617mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,15
Runoff
181mm/an
PET
730mm
AET
519mm
Mean slope
6,8°
Water table
430cm
Forest
38%
Crops
22%
Urban
6%
Protected
5%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)