HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #2080497690
Bassin de Aare
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 : Aarau, Gösgen, Olten, Sissach, Zofingen
Sub-basin area
119,6km²
Upstream area
10 717,8km²
Discharge
277,11m³/s
Mean elev.
522m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Wisbächli229 km²
- Bassin de Mühletych19 km²
5 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- GösgenSolothurn · Switzerland52.1 km²43.4% of basin
- OltenSolothurn · Switzerland36.0 km²30.0% of basin
- Aarau25.5 km²21.3% of basin
- Zofingen6.2 km²5.2% of basin
- Sissach0.1 km²0.1% of basin
30 intersecting protected areas
Egg-Königstein
IUCN Not AssignedForest Reserves
2.74 km² overlap
Buechwald Erlinsbach
IUCN Not AssignedForest Reserves
2.25 km² overlap
Obergösger Schachen
IUCN IVFederal Inventory of Amphibian Spawning Areas of National Importance
0.43 km² overlap
Wöschnau
IUCN IVFederal Inventory of Alluvial Zones of National Importance
0.38 km² overlap
Aarau-Rupperswil
IUCN IVFederal Inventory of Alluvial Zones of National Importance
0.30 km² overlap
Dottenberg
IUCN Not AssignedForest Reserves
0.27 km² overlap
Gugen
IUCN Not AssignedForest Reserves
0.26 km² overlap
Acheberg, Judenhalde, Reben
IUCN Not AssignedPrivate Nature Reserves
0.22 km² overlap
Egg
IUCN IVFederal Inventory of Dry Grasslands and Pastures of National Importance
0.22 km² overlap
21 more protected areassorted by overlap area
Hegiberg - Geissflue
IUCN Not AssignedForest Reserves
0.21 km² overlap
Wallmattberg
IUCN Not AssignedForest Reserves
0.19 km² overlap
Winterhalden/Rebenflue
IUCN Not AssignedForest Reserves
0.19 km² overlap
Schachen
IUCN Not AssignedForest Reserves
0.17 km² overlap
Römerwarte
IUCN Not AssignedForest Reserves
0.16 km² overlap
Grossmoos
IUCN IVFederal Inventory of Amphibian Spawning Areas of National Importance
0.15 km² overlap
Winterhalden-Häldeli
IUCN Not AssignedForest Reserves
0.15 km² overlap
Acheberg
IUCN IVFederal Inventory of Dry Grasslands and Pastures of National Importance
0.14 km² overlap
Hutzlen / Burggraben
IUCN Not AssignedForest Reserves
0.13 km² overlap
Grien
IUCN Not AssignedForest Reserves
0.13 km² overlap
Zurlindeninsel
IUCN IVFederal Inventory of Amphibian Spawning Areas of National Importance
0.11 km² overlap
Brunneberg
IUCN IVFederal Inventory of Dry Grasslands and Pastures of National Importance
0.11 km² overlap
Schachen
IUCN Not AssignedForest Reserves
0.11 km² overlap
Burgchopf
IUCN Not AssignedForest Reserves
0.10 km² overlap
Schloss Wartenfels
IUCN Not AssignedForest Reserves
0.10 km² overlap
Hutzlen
IUCN Not AssignedForest Reserves
0.10 km² overlap
Altholzinsel Sodhubel
IUCN Not AssignedForest Reserves
0.09 km² overlap
Hornflue
IUCN Not AssignedForest Reserves
0.09 km² overlap
Rebenfeld
IUCN IVFederal Inventory of Dry Grasslands and Pastures of National Importance
0.09 km² overlap
Riepel
IUCN Not AssignedForest Reserves
0.08 km² overlap
Schachen
IUCN Not AssignedForest Reserves
0.08 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
6 866 distinct species · 425 976 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 24 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 Aare : 10 espèces reliées par 146 interactions GloBI sur 5 types (connectance 41.6%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 17 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°
8,8°C
Annual rain
1 037mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,27
Runoff
734mm/an
PET
754mm
AET
696mm
Mean slope
8,9°
Water table
324cm
Forest
56%
Crops
6%
Urban
48%
Protected
1%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)