HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #2080414060

Bassin de Weiße Elster

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 6 administrative regions across 2 countries : Cheb, Greiz, Hof, Saale-Orla-Kreis, Sokolov +1

6% lakePfafstetter: 23284049

Sub-basin area

992,2km²

Upstream area

992,4km²

Discharge

6,55m³/s

Mean elev.

502m

Administrative coverage

Hydrographic chain

▼ Drains into

Bassin de Weiße Elster233 km²

▲ Receives from 0 basins

Source / headwater (no upstream basin)

6 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)

Vogtlandkreis
Sachsen · Germany
873.3 km²
87.7% of basin
Greiz
Thüringen · Germany
59.2 km²
5.9% of basin
Cheb
Karlovarský · Czechia
54.3 km²
5.5% of basin
Hof
Bayern · Germany
5.5 km²
0.5% of basin
Sokolov
Karlovarský · Czechia
1.8 km²
0.2% of basin
Saale-Orla-Kreis
Thüringen · Germany
1.6 km²
0.2% of basin

30 intersecting protected areas

Oberes Vogtland
IUCN V
Landscape Protection Area
137.99 km² overlap
Burgsteinlandschaft
IUCN V
Landscape Protection Area
47.85 km² overlap
Talsperre Dröda
IUCN V
Landscape Protection Area
47.07 km² overlap
Talsperre Pöhl
IUCN V
Landscape Protection Area
35.47 km² overlap
Leubnitz-Tobertitzer Riedelgebiet
IUCN V
Landscape Protection Area
31.99 km² overlap
Görnitztal
IUCN V
Landscape Protection Area
19.56 km² overlap
Vogtländische Pöhle und Täler
IUCN Not Reported
Special Protection Area (Birds Directive)
18.45 km² overlap
Elstergebirge
IUCN Not Reported
Special Protection Area (Birds Directive)
15.49 km² overlap
Talsperre Pirk
IUCN V
Landscape Protection Area
14.38 km² overlap

21 more protected areassorted by overlap area

Kuhberg - Steinicht
IUCN V
Landscape Protection Area
13.79 km² overlap
Weidenteich und Syrau-Kauschwitzer Heide
IUCN Not Reported
Special Protection Area (Birds Directive)
9.54 km² overlap
Elstersteilhänge nördlich Plauen
IUCN Not Reported
Special Protection Area (Birds Directive)
6.74 km² overlap
Elstersteilhänge
IUCN Not Reported
Special Areas of Conservation (Habitats Directive)
6.59 km² overlap
Elstersteilhänge
IUCN IV
Nature Reserve
6.24 km² overlap
Elstertal oberhalb Plauen
IUCN Not Reported
Special Areas of Conservation (Habitats Directive)
6.21 km² overlap
Unteres Friesenbachtal
IUCN V
Landscape Protection Area
4.45 km² overlap
Großer Weidenteich
IUCN Not Reported
Special Areas of Conservation (Habitats Directive)
3.42 km² overlap
Großer Weidenteich
IUCN IV
Nature Reserve
3.31 km² overlap
Görnitzbach- und Würschnitzbachtal
IUCN Not Reported
Special Areas of Conservation (Habitats Directive)
2.91 km² overlap
Raunerbach- und Haarbachtal
IUCN Not Reported
Special Areas of Conservation (Habitats Directive)
2.75 km² overlap
Rauner- und Haarbachtal
IUCN IV
Nature Reserve
2.63 km² overlap
Separate Fledermausquartiere u. -habitate Vogtland/Westerzgebirge
IUCN Not Reported
Special Areas of Conservation (Habitats Directive)
2.58 km² overlap
Syratal
IUCN V
Landscape Protection Area
2.11 km² overlap
Grünes Band
IUCN Not Reported
Special Protection Area (Birds Directive)
2.10 km² overlap
Grünes Band Sachsen / Bayern
IUCN Not Reported
Special Areas of Conservation (Habitats Directive)
2.09 km² overlap
Triebtalgebiet
IUCN Not Reported
Special Areas of Conservation (Habitats Directive)
2.03 km² overlap
Triebelbachtal
IUCN Not Reported
Special Areas of Conservation (Habitats Directive)
1.90 km² overlap
Vogtländische Pöhle
IUCN Not Reported
Special Areas of Conservation (Habitats Directive)
1.87 km² overlap
Syrau-Kauschwitzer Heide
IUCN IV
Nature Reserve
1.79 km² overlap
Syrau-Kauschwitzer Heide
IUCN Not Reported
Special Areas of Conservation (Habitats Directive)
1.78 km² overlap

Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.

Species present

4 214 distinct species · 66 073 observations

Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.

Ecological tissue

Sample of 29 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).

RègnesAnimalPlanteChampignonBacterie

RelationsPredationParasitismeSymbiosePollinisation

StatutEn dangerVulnérableProtégéeEndémique

RègnesAnimalPlanteChampignonBacterie

RelationsPredationParasitismeSymbiosePollinisation

StatutEn dangerVulnérableProtégéeEndémique

Indicateurs du tissu écologique

Tissu écologique de Bassin de Weiße Elster : 16 espèces reliées par 135 interactions GloBI sur 6 types (connectance 27.2%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 16 bulles taxonomiques (cascade genre/famille GloBI, ≥3 espèces).

Espèces affichées

Interactions affichées

135

Connectance

0.272

Patrimoniales

Plus dense que (national)0 %(top 100%)

Comparaison sur la connectance du réseau local complet vs distribution nationale (toutes les communes françaises).

Hydroclimate (BasinATLAS lev08)

Mean T°

7,0°C

Annual rain

677mm

Moisture idx (CMI)

-0,03

Runoff

214mm/an

PET

698mm

AET

537mm

Mean slope

4,6°

Water table

383cm

Forest

41%

Crops

31%

Urban

Protected

37%

HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)