HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #2080432660
Bassin de Our
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 7 administrative regions across 3 countries : Clervaux, Diekirch, Eifelkreis Bitburg-Prüm, Euskirchen, Liège +2
Sub-basin area
681,5km²
Upstream area
681,5km²
Discharge
9,2m³/s
Mean elev.
473m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
7 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 290.1 km²42.4% of basin
- 272.3 km²39.8% of basin
- ClervauxDiekirch · Luxembourg83.3 km²12.2% of basin
- ViandenDiekirch · Luxembourg27.6 km²4.0% of basin
- 6.2 km²0.9% of basin
- DiekirchDiekirch · Luxembourg2.7 km²0.4% of basin
- Euskirchen1.7 km²0.2% of basin
30 intersecting protected areas
Naturpark Nordeifel
IUCN VLandscape Protection Area
86.87 km² overlap
ZSC - Natura 2000
57.22 km² overlap
Vallée de l'Our de Ouren a Wallendorf Pont
IUCN Not ReportedSpecial Areas of Conservation (Habitats Directive)
56.45 km² overlap
Ourtal
IUCN Not ReportedSpecial Areas of Conservation (Habitats Directive)
53.55 km² overlap
ZPS - Natura 2000
43.18 km² overlap
Vallée supérieure de l'Our et affluents de Lieler à Dasbourg
IUCN Not ReportedSpecial Protection Area (Birds Directive)
17.40 km² overlap
Schneifel
IUCN Not ReportedSpecial Areas of Conservation (Habitats Directive)
6.95 km² overlap
Vallée inférieure de l'Our et ses affluents
IUCN Not ReportedSpecial Areas of Conservation (Habitats Directive)
6.40 km² overlap
Vallée inférieure de l'Our et ses affluents
IUCN Not ReportedSpecial Protection Area (Birds Directive)
6.40 km² overlap
21 more protected areassorted by overlap area
Nature Reserve
5.01 km² overlap
Vallée supérieure de l'Our et ses affluents
IUCN Not ReportedSpecial Protection Area (Birds Directive)
4.00 km² overlap
Vallée supérieure de l'Our et ses affluents
IUCN Not ReportedSpecial Areas of Conservation (Habitats Directive)
4.00 km² overlap
Sources de l'Our et de l'Ensebach
IUCN Not ReportedSpecial Areas of Conservation (Habitats Directive)
3.19 km² overlap
Sources de l'Our et de l'Ensebach
IUCN Not ReportedSpecial Protection Area (Birds Directive)
3.19 km² overlap
Vallée et affluents du Braunlauf
IUCN Not ReportedSpecial Areas of Conservation (Habitats Directive)
2.91 km² overlap
Vallée et affluents du Braunlauf
IUCN Not ReportedSpecial Protection Area (Birds Directive)
2.91 km² overlap
Vallée de l'Ulf
IUCN Not ReportedSpecial Protection Area (Birds Directive)
2.84 km² overlap
Vallée de l'Ulf
IUCN Not ReportedSpecial Areas of Conservation (Habitats Directive)
2.84 km² overlap
Ourschleife/Falkenstein
IUCN IVNature Reserve
2.65 km² overlap
Vallée du Medemberbach
IUCN Not ReportedSpecial Areas of Conservation (Habitats Directive)
2.53 km² overlap
Vallée du Medemberbach
IUCN Not ReportedSpecial Protection Area (Birds Directive)
2.53 km² overlap
Affluents de l'Our entre Setz et Schoenberg
IUCN Not ReportedSpecial Protection Area (Birds Directive)
2.45 km² overlap
Affluents de l'Our entre Setz et Schoenberg
IUCN Not ReportedSpecial Areas of Conservation (Habitats Directive)
2.45 km² overlap
Vallée du Kolvenderbach
IUCN Not ReportedSpecial Protection Area (Birds Directive)
1.93 km² overlap
Vallée du Kolvenderbach
IUCN Not ReportedSpecial Areas of Conservation (Habitats Directive)
1.93 km² overlap
Akescht
IUCN IIProtected Area
1.68 km² overlap
Kasselslay / Zogel
IUCN IIProtected Area
0.89 km² overlap
Nature Reserve
0.74 km² overlap
Landscape Protection Area
0.63 km² overlap
LSG-Losheimer Wald
IUCN VLandscape Protection Area
0.61 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
6 239 distinct species · 154 356 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 30 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 Our : 22 espèces + 8 bulles famille, 65 interactions GloBI documentées sur 5 types (connectance 14.9%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). Les 8 bulles regroupent des espèces visuellement absorbées par famille (≥3 espèces visibles).
Comparaison sur la connectance du réseau local complet vs distribution nationale (toutes les communes françaises).
Hydroclimate (BasinATLAS lev08)
Mean T°
7,7°C
Annual rain
967mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,31
Runoff
394mm/an
PET
663mm
AET
572mm
Mean slope
6,2°
Water table
313cm
Forest
46%
Crops
11%
Urban
0%
Protected
51%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)