HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #2080495430
Bassin de Linth
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 22 administrative regions : Affoltern, Baden, Bremgarten, Dielsdorf, Dietikon +17
Sub-basin area
2 406,9km²
Upstream area
2 406,9km²
Discharge
90,62m³/s
Mean elev.
1 132m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
22 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- GlarusGlarus · Switzerland687.8 km²28.5% of basin
- SarganserlandSankt Gallen · Switzerland335.3 km²13.9% of basin
- See-GasterSankt Gallen · Switzerland243.0 km²10.1% of basin
- MarchSchwyz · Switzerland175.7 km²7.3% of basin
- SchwyzSchwyz · Switzerland169.0 km²7.0% of basin
- HorgenZürich · Switzerland130.4 km²5.4% of basin
- EinsiedelnSchwyz · Switzerland109.0 km²4.5% of basin
- MeilenZürich · Switzerland98.3 km²4.1% of basin
14 moreFull L2 list
- Baden72.5 km² · 3.0%
- Hinwil62.9 km² · 2.6%
- Dietikon62.2 km² · 2.6%
- Zürich58.4 km² · 2.4%
- Höfe43.3 km² · 1.8%
- Zug37.6 km² · 1.6%
- Uri36.9 km² · 1.5%
- Dielsdorf34.4 km² · 1.4%
- Affoltern24.7 km² · 1.0%
- Bremgarten12.7 km² · 0.5%
- Werdenberg12.2 km² · 0.5%
- Surselva3.6 km² · 0.1%
- Toggenburg2.7 km² · 0.1%
- Imboden0.9 km² · 0.0%
30 intersecting protected areas
Swiss Tectonic Arena Sardona
IUCN Not ApplicableWorld Heritage Site (natural or mixed)
226.59 km² overlap
Kärpf
IUCN IVFederal Hunting Reserves
94.24 km² overlap
Graue Hörner
IUCN IVFederal Hunting Reserves
38.68 km² overlap
Silbern-Jägern-Bödmerenwald
IUCN IVFederal Hunting Reserves
19.75 km² overlap
Murgtal
IUCN Not AssignedForest Reserves
18.10 km² overlap
Schilt
IUCN IVFederal Hunting Reserves
12.63 km² overlap
Wängital-Regulastein
IUCN Not AssignedForest Reserves
9.89 km² overlap
Rauti-Tros
IUCN IVFederal Hunting Reserves
9.72 km² overlap
Sihlwald
IUCN Not AssignedForest Reserves
9.19 km² overlap
21 more protected areassorted by overlap area
Chrauchtal
IUCN IVFederal Hunting Reserves
7.82 km² overlap
Amden
IUCN Not AssignedForest Reserves
6.16 km² overlap
Rinderweidhorn
IUCN Not AssignedForest Reserves
4.21 km² overlap
Wildnispark Zürich Sihlwald
IUCN IaCore zone
4.20 km² overlap
Erweiterung Bezirk Einsiedeln
IUCN Not AssignedForest Reserves
3.93 km² overlap
Eichenreicher Stadtwald Baden
IUCN Not AssignedForest Reserves
3.78 km² overlap
Ybrig
IUCN Not AssignedForest Reserves
3.76 km² overlap
Gross Allmeindwald
IUCN Not AssignedForest Reserves
3.38 km² overlap
Grappli-, Rautiwald, Rosslöcher
IUCN Not AssignedForest Reserves
3.17 km² overlap
Lägeren Südhang
IUCN Not AssignedForest Reserves
3.02 km² overlap
Mythen
IUCN IVFederal Hunting Reserves
2.82 km² overlap
Büelserwald
IUCN Not AssignedForest Reserves
2.72 km² overlap
Tamons
IUCN Not AssignedForest Reserves
2.42 km² overlap
Mürtschental
IUCN Not AssignedForest Reserves
2.35 km² overlap
Gutschwald
IUCN Not AssignedForest Reserves
2.31 km² overlap
Sedel-Ischtwald
IUCN Not AssignedForest Reserves
1.99 km² overlap
Hobacher Salzbrunnen
IUCN Not AssignedForest Reserves
1.94 km² overlap
Forenmoos und Wisstannen
IUCN Not AssignedForest Reserves
1.88 km² overlap
Moose auf dem Rickenpass
IUCN Not AssignedEmerald Sites
1.86 km² overlap
Moore auf dem Rickenpass
IUCN Not ReportedEmerald Network
1.86 km² overlap
Federal Inventory of Reserves for Waterbirds and Migratory Birds of International and National Imp.
1.62 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
17 588 distinct species · 2 879 947 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 Linth : 22 espèces reliées par 143 interactions GloBI sur 6 types (connectance 20.3%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 16 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°
5,9°C
Annual rain
1 362mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,50
Runoff
1 163mm/an
PET
636mm
AET
625mm
Mean slope
17,2°
Water table
539cm
Forest
70%
Crops
14%
Urban
21%
Protected
10%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)