HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #2080426190
Bassin de Kinzig
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 : Aschaffenburg, Fulda, Main-Kinzig-Kreis, Vogelsbergkreis, Wetteraukreis
Sub-basin area
1 061,5km²
Upstream area
1 061,6km²
Discharge
9,49m³/s
Mean elev.
285m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
5 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 951.2 km²89.3% of basin
- 53.4 km²5.0% of basin
- 50.8 km²4.8% of basin
- 7.9 km²0.7% of basin
- 1.9 km²0.2% of basin
30 intersecting protected areas
Auenverbund Kinzig
IUCN VLandscape Protection Area
121.87 km² overlap
Spessart bei Bad Orb
IUCN Not ReportedSpecial Protection Area (Birds Directive)
34.06 km² overlap
Vogelsberg
IUCN Not ReportedSpecial Protection Area (Birds Directive)
28.33 km² overlap
Stadt Hanau
IUCN VLandscape Protection Area
23.19 km² overlap
Talauen bei Freiensteinau und Gewässerabschnitt der Salz
IUCN Not ReportedSpecial Areas of Conservation (Habitats Directive)
7.77 km² overlap
Landscape Protection Area
6.14 km² overlap
Erlensee bei Erlensee und Bulau bei Hanau
IUCN Not ReportedSpecial Areas of Conservation (Habitats Directive)
6.03 km² overlap
Spessart bei Alsberg
IUCN Not ReportedSpecial Areas of Conservation (Habitats Directive)
5.51 km² overlap
Talauensystem der Bieber und der Kinzig bei Biebergemünd
IUCN Not ReportedSpecial Areas of Conservation (Habitats Directive)
4.66 km² overlap
21 more protected areassorted by overlap area
Weiherskopf/ Hohestein
IUCN Not ReportedSpecial Areas of Conservation (Habitats Directive)
4.21 km² overlap
Lietebach,Kelterberg und Schluchtwald bei Ahlersbach u. Hohenzell
IUCN Not ReportedSpecial Areas of Conservation (Habitats Directive)
2.08 km² overlap
Erlensee bei Erlensee
IUCN IVNature Reserve
1.97 km² overlap
Landscape Protection Area
1.81 km² overlap
Bruchköbel
IUCN Not ReportedSpecial Areas of Conservation (Habitats Directive)
1.63 km² overlap
Nature Reserve
1.57 km² overlap
Weideswiesen-Oberwald bei Erlensee
IUCN Not ReportedSpecial Areas of Conservation (Habitats Directive)
1.57 km² overlap
Kinzigsystem oberhalb von Steinau a. d. Straße
IUCN Not ReportedSpecial Areas of Conservation (Habitats Directive)
1.52 km² overlap
Kinzig zwischen Langenselbold und Wächtersbach
IUCN Not ReportedSpecial Areas of Conservation (Habitats Directive)
1.49 km² overlap
Wiesbütt-Moor mit angrenzenden Waldflächen
IUCN Not ReportedSpecial Areas of Conservation (Habitats Directive)
1.47 km² overlap
Kinzigaue von Langenselbold
IUCN Not ReportedSpecial Areas of Conservation (Habitats Directive)
1.29 km² overlap
Kinzigaue von Langenselbold
IUCN IVNature Reserve
1.29 km² overlap
Landscape Protection Area
1.24 km² overlap
Hoher Vogelsberg
IUCN Not ReportedSpecial Areas of Conservation (Habitats Directive)
1.11 km² overlap
Hirzwald bei Mittelbuchen
IUCN Not ReportedSpecial Areas of Conservation (Habitats Directive)
1.05 km² overlap
Steinaubachtal, Teufelsloch und Almosenwiese bei Steinau a.d.Str.
IUCN Not ReportedSpecial Areas of Conservation (Habitats Directive)
1.04 km² overlap
Bellinger Berg
IUCN IVNature Reserve
0.96 km² overlap
Bellinger Berg
IUCN Not ReportedSpecial Areas of Conservation (Habitats Directive)
0.96 km² overlap
Lochborn von Bieber
IUCN IVNature Reserve
0.93 km² overlap
Landscape Protection Area
0.91 km² overlap
Nature Reserve
0.73 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
4 749 distinct species · 106 105 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 Kinzig : 25 espèces dont 1 patrimoniale (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 111 interactions GloBI sur 6 types (connectance 16.7%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 12 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°
8,9°C
Annual rain
696mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,10
Runoff
278mm/an
PET
773mm
AET
562mm
Mean slope
5,1°
Water table
311cm
Forest
37%
Crops
25%
Urban
18%
Protected
16%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)