HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #2080414680
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 9 administrative regions across 2 countries : Cheb, Hof, Hof (Kreisfreie Stadt), Kronach, Kulmbach +4
Sub-basin area
1 657,1km²
Upstream area
1 657,2km²
Discharge
12,87m³/s
Mean elev.
546m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
9 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 751.0 km²45.2% of basin
- 641.1 km²38.5% of basin
- 59.8 km²3.6% of basin
- 58.2 km²3.5% of basin
- 58.0 km²3.5% of basin
- 49.3 km²3.0% of basin
- 42.6 km²2.6% of basin
- 2.9 km²0.2% of basin
1 moreFull L2 list
- Kulmbach0.0 km² · 0.0%
30 intersecting protected areas
Obere Saale
IUCN VLandscape Protection Area
205.28 km² overlap
LSG "Fichtelgebirge"
IUCN VLandscape Protection Area
85.41 km² overlap
Landscape Protection Area
42.50 km² overlap
Plothener Teiche
IUCN Not ReportedSpecial Protection Area (Birds Directive)
28.02 km² overlap
Landscape Protection Area
26.22 km² overlap
Landscape Protection Area
23.83 km² overlap
Plothener Teichgebiet
IUCN VLandscape Protection Area
18.20 km² overlap
Landscape Protection Area
13.58 km² overlap
Bystřina - Lužní potok
IUCN Not ReportedSpecial Areas of Conservation (Habitats Directive)
11.27 km² overlap
21 more protected areassorted by overlap area
Dreba-Plothener Teichgebiet
IUCN IVNature Reserve
10.68 km² overlap
Dreba-Plothener Teichgebiet
IUCN Not ReportedSpecial Areas of Conservation (Habitats Directive)
10.37 km² overlap
Hänge an der Bleilochtalsperre
IUCN Not ReportedSpecial Protection Area (Birds Directive)
9.27 km² overlap
Hänge an der Bleilochtalsperre
IUCN Not ReportedSpecial Areas of Conservation (Habitats Directive)
9.27 km² overlap
Schutz von Landschaftsräumen im Gebiet der Stadt Hof und des Landkreises Hof ("Untreubachtal")
IUCN VLandscape Protection Area
8.34 km² overlap
Wisentatal bei Mühltroff
IUCN Not ReportedSpecial Protection Area (Birds Directive)
7.20 km² overlap
Mittelgrund
IUCN Not ReportedSpecial Areas of Conservation (Habitats Directive)
6.33 km² overlap
Frankenwald - Schieferbrüche um Lehesten
IUCN Not ReportedSpecial Protection Area (Birds Directive)
6.07 km² overlap
Landscape Protection Area
5.50 km² overlap
Jägersruh - Gemäßgrund - Thüringische Moschwitz
IUCN Not ReportedSpecial Areas of Conservation (Habitats Directive)
5.33 km² overlap
Grünes Band Sachsen / Bayern
IUCN Not ReportedSpecial Areas of Conservation (Habitats Directive)
5.32 km² overlap
Grünes Band
IUCN Not ReportedSpecial Protection Area (Birds Directive)
5.23 km² overlap
Burgsteinlandschaft
IUCN VLandscape Protection Area
5.03 km² overlap
Nordostbayerische Bachtäler um Rehau
IUCN Not ReportedSpecial Areas of Conservation (Habitats Directive)
4.72 km² overlap
Nature Reserve
4.68 km² overlap
Bystřina - Lužní potok
IUCN IVNational Nature Monument
4.68 km² overlap
Burgk - Bleiberg - Kobersfelsen
IUCN Not ReportedSpecial Areas of Conservation (Habitats Directive)
4.22 km² overlap
Wisenta und Zeitera
IUCN Not ReportedSpecial Areas of Conservation (Habitats Directive)
4.01 km² overlap
Selbitz, Muschwitz und Höllental
IUCN Not ReportedSpecial Areas of Conservation (Habitats Directive)
3.88 km² overlap
Landscape Protection Area
3.86 km² overlap
Saaletal v. Joditz bis Blankenstein u. NSG Tannbach b. Mödlareuth
IUCN Not ReportedSpecial Areas of Conservation (Habitats Directive)
3.23 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
5 089 distinct species · 220 901 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 40 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 : 29 espèces reliées par 103 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 13.2%, 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°
6,8°C
Annual rain
733mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,06
Runoff
228mm/an
PET
689mm
AET
547mm
Mean slope
4,3°
Water table
386cm
Forest
35%
Crops
36%
Urban
4%
Protected
28%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)