Regional Nature Park · fra
Causses Du Quercy
- Area
- 1 832 km²
- IUCN cat.
- V
- Year
- 1999
Overview
- Designation
- Regional Nature Park
- IUCN category
- V · Paysage protégé
Paysage façonné par l'humain digne de conservation
- Established
- 1999
- Managing authority
- French Ministry in charge of the environment. In march 2012, name, acronym and address as follows : Ministère de l'Écologie, du Développement durable, des Transports et du Logement (MEDDTL) 92055 La Défense Cedex France. For regional parks network,
Source : WDPA (UNEP-WCMC, World Database on Protected Areas).
Species present
6 456 distinct species · 299 468 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 38 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 Causses Du Quercy : 34 espèces + 4 bulles famille, 63 interactions GloBI documentées sur 6 types (connectance 9.0%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). Les 4 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).
Hydrology13 basins · 0 lakes · 27 rivers
Hydrology metrics for this exact territory
Stream length here
277,1km
Basins crossed
13
Max stream order
5
Max drainage
15 586km²
Discharge in basins
194,8m³/s
Mean precip.
807mm/an
Mean T°
11,9°C
Moisture idx
-0,17
Max snow
4%
Mean runoff
410mm/an
Mean elev. (basins)
320m
Watersheds crossing here
- Bassin du Célésub-area1 334 km²overlap516.98 km²28%
- Bassin du Lotsub-area698,7 km²overlap326.44 km²18%
- Bassin du Lotsub-area1 119,3 km²overlap316.82 km²17%
- Bassin de l'Alzousub-area340,7 km²overlap286.63 km²16%
- Bassin du Céousub-area573,2 km²overlap118.76 km²6%
- Bassin de la Lèresub-area410,5 km²overlap68.76 km²4%
- Bassin de la Dordognesub-area227,6 km²overlap63.98 km²3%
- Bassin de la Dordognesub-area739,6 km²overlap54.07 km²3%
- Bassin du Lemboulassub-area661,3 km²overlap45.44 km²2%
Rivers / streams (27, ord ≥ 4)
- Le Lotord 5len here52.58 km13%total398 km
- Le Céléord 5len here47.27 km56%total84 km
- L'Alzouord 3len here25.61 km100%total26 km
- Le Céouord 3len here22.48 km40%total56 km
- Le Versord 2len here20.10 km93%total22 km
- La Sagneord 2len here18.54 km100%total19 km
- L'Ouysseord 3len here18.01 km80%total23 km
- Le Francèsord 1len here10.88 km61%total18 km
- La Dordogneord 6len here7.38 km2%total485 km
- Ruisseau des Valsesord 1len here6.78 km100%total7 km
- Le Girouord 3len here6.56 km22%total29 km
- Ruisseau de Barayrouord 1len here5.51 km39%total14 km
15 more river segmentssorted by Strahler order + length
- Versord 1len here3.97 km100%total4 km
- Le Lemboulasord 3len here3.95 km11%total36 km
- Ruisseau de Lavayssièreord 4len here3.34 km100%total3 km
- Ruisseau de Saint-Albyord 1len here3.31 km98%total3 km
- La Lèreord 2len here3.14 km17%total18 km
- Ruisseau de Verboulord 1len here2.92 km100%total3 km
- Ruisseau de Trigassouord 2len here2.79 km100%total3 km
- Le Rêtord 2len here2.28 km49%total5 km
- Ruisseau de Bellefontord 1len here2.18 km38%total6 km
- Ruisseau de Lantouyord 3len here2.15 km19%total11 km
- Ruisseau de Bioord 1len here2.05 km100%total2 km
- Ruisseau de Bourlandeord 1len here1.73 km100%total2 km
- Ruisseau de Thégraord 1len here0.85 km100%total1 km
- Ruisseau de Léouréord 1len here0.37 km11%total4 km
- Ruisseau de Glaichord 1len here0.36 km20%total2 km
Live spatial overlap (cached after first hit) · HydroBASINS lev08 × HydroLAKES × HydroRIVERS v10
Location
Fond cartographique : OpenFreeMap · © OpenStreetMap contributors · Géométrie : nos sources (GADM/HydroBASINS/HydroLAKES/HydroRIVERS/WDPA)
- Centroid
- 44.55634, 1.69080
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Species observed (Phase 2)
Listing species observed within this protected area requires the GBIF v2 partition × WDPA spatial overlay matview. Computing infrastructure pending.