HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #2080419440
Bassin de Elbbach
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 4 administrative regions : Lahn-Dill-Kreis, Limburg-Weilburg, Rhein-Lahn-Kreis, Westerwaldkreis
Sub-basin area
320km²
Upstream area
320km²
Discharge
2,88m³/s
Mean elev.
340m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
4 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 204.5 km²63.7% of basin
- 115.5 km²36.0% of basin
- 0.6 km²0.2% of basin
- 0.5 km²0.2% of basin
28 intersecting protected areas
Westerwald
IUCN Not ReportedSpecial Protection Area (Birds Directive)
48.44 km² overlap
Secker Weiher –Wiesensee
IUCN VLandscape Protection Area
39.96 km² overlap
Krombachtalsperre
IUCN VLandscape Protection Area
11.08 km² overlap
Westerwälder Kuppenland
IUCN Not ReportedSpecial Areas of Conservation (Habitats Directive)
9.28 km² overlap
Feuchtgebiete und Heiden des Hohen Westerwaldes
IUCN Not ReportedSpecial Areas of Conservation (Habitats Directive)
8.36 km² overlap
Abbaugebiete Dornburg-Thalheim
IUCN Not ReportedSpecial Areas of Conservation (Habitats Directive)
2.79 km² overlap
Dornburg
IUCN IVNature Reserve
1.21 km² overlap
Steinbrüche in Mittelhessen
IUCN Not ReportedSpecial Protection Area (Birds Directive)
1.03 km² overlap
Heidenhäuschen
IUCN Not ReportedSpecial Areas of Conservation (Habitats Directive)
1.01 km² overlap
19 more protected areassorted by overlap area
Heidenhäuschen
IUCN IVNature Reserve
1.01 km² overlap
Elbbachtal
IUCN IVNature Reserve
0.83 km² overlap
Elbbachtal
IUCN Not ReportedSpecial Areas of Conservation (Habitats Directive)
0.83 km² overlap
Seebachtal
IUCN IVNature Reserve
0.50 km² overlap
Elbbachaue östlich von Elz
IUCN Not ReportedSpecial Areas of Conservation (Habitats Directive)
0.47 km² overlap
Waldgebiet westlich von Elz
IUCN Not ReportedSpecial Areas of Conservation (Habitats Directive)
0.41 km² overlap
Blasiusberg
IUCN IVNature Reserve
0.22 km² overlap
Holzbachdurchbruch
IUCN IVNature Reserve
0.21 km² overlap
Hartenberg/Steincheswiese
IUCN IVNature Reserve
0.15 km² overlap
Kiesgrube von Niederhadamar
IUCN IVNature Reserve
0.14 km² overlap
Wacholderheide Westernohe
IUCN IVNature Reserve
0.14 km² overlap
Kalksteinbruch bei Hadamar
IUCN IVNature Reserve
0.10 km² overlap
Westerwaldgrube bei Thalheim
IUCN IVNature Reserve
0.09 km² overlap
Spitzberg, Gackenberg und Tongruben von Hintermeilingen
IUCN Not ReportedSpecial Areas of Conservation (Habitats Directive)
0.07 km² overlap
Steinbruch bei Ahlbach
IUCN IVNature Reserve
0.05 km² overlap
Hasenwiese
IUCN IVNature Reserve
0.04 km² overlap
Thalheimer Kiesgrube
IUCN IVNature Reserve
0.04 km² overlap
Bärenloch bei Thalheim
IUCN Not ReportedSpecial Areas of Conservation (Habitats Directive)
0.02 km² overlap
Hoher Westerwald
IUCN Not ReportedSpecial Protection Area (Birds Directive)
0.01 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
2 721 distinct species · 33 435 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 28 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 Elbbach : 14 espèces reliées par 110 interactions GloBI sur 6 types (connectance 27.1%, 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°
8,3°C
Annual rain
788mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,09
Runoff
284mm/an
PET
707mm
AET
553mm
Mean slope
4,3°
Water table
301cm
Forest
34%
Crops
27%
Urban
16%
Protected
17%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)