Special Protection Area (Birds Directive) · fra
Gorges de la Loire
- Area
- 588 km²
- IUCN cat.
- Not Reported
- Year
- 2018
Overview
- Designation
- Special Protection Area (Birds Directive)
- Established
- 2018
- Managing authority
- See European Environment Agency Geospatial Data Catalogue for more information - https://sdi.eea.europa.eu/catalogue/srv/api/records/be2142b0-7dc4-42e3-afac-f7cc5f1a9ac6
Source : WDPA (UNEP-WCMC, World Database on Protected Areas).
Species present
5 176 distinct species · 281 462 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 32 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 Gorges de la Loire : 18 espèces reliées par 101 interactions GloBI sur 6 types (connectance 18.0%, 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).
Hydrology5 basins · 1 lakes · 34 rivers
Hydrology metrics for this exact territory
Stream length here
238,4km
Lake surface here
0,16km²
Basins crossed
5
Max stream order
4
Max drainage
5 113km²
Discharge in basins
36,7m³/s
Mean precip.
781mm/an
Mean T°
8,1°C
Moisture idx
-0,03
Max snow
21%
Mean runoff
364mm/an
Mean elev. (basins)
919m
Watersheds crossing here
Lakes (1, top by area)
Rivers / streams (34, ord ≥ 4)
- La Loireord 7len here72.50 km7%total974 km
- Ruisseau du Crosord 4len here21.02 km73%total29 km
- L'Anceord 3len here19.42 km24%total81 km
- Le Lignonord 3len here9.51 km9%total106 km
- Le Ramelord 2len here9.36 km53%total18 km
- L'Andrableord 1len here8.86 km35%total25 km
- L'Arzonord 2len here8.62 km34%total25 km
- La Langougnoleord 3len here8.14 km50%total16 km
- Ruisseau de Courbièresord 1len here6.89 km81%total9 km
- La Gagneord 3len here6.83 km17%total41 km
- La Sumèneord 1len here5.47 km29%total19 km
- Le Manilouord 3len here4.88 km100%total5 km
22 more river segmentssorted by Strahler order + length
- Ruisseau de l'Holmeord 1len here4.75 km90%total5 km
- Rivière Ourzieord 1len here4.65 km64%total7 km
- Fleuve la Loireord 3len here4.55 km30%total15 km
- Ruisseau de Rameyord 1len here4.53 km100%total5 km
- Le Ranord 1len here4.16 km100%total4 km
- La Dunièreord 2len here3.82 km13%total30 km
- Ruisseau de Malavalord 2len here3.64 km34%total11 km
- La Fouragetteord 1len here3.61 km48%total8 km
- Ruisseau de la Caveord 4len here3.55 km100%total4 km
- Ruisseau de la Chamalièreord 1len here3.42 km44%total8 km
- Le Tranchardord 4len here2.94 km60%total5 km
- La Bloueord 1len here2.77 km100%total3 km
- Ruisseau de Viailleord 1len here2.67 km40%total7 km
- Ruisseau de la Breureord 1len here2.09 km71%total3 km
- La Méjeanneord 2len here1.57 km14%total11 km
- La Gazeilleord 2len here1.49 km11%total14 km
- Ruisseau de Crisselleord 1len here0.85 km100%total1 km
- Ruisseau de Saint-Marcellinord 2len here0.83 km17%total5 km
- La Suissesseord 2len here0.40 km14%total3 km
- L'Orcivalord 1len here0.31 km5%total7 km
- Ruisseau de Courbeyreord 1len here0.23 km6%total4 km
- La Semèneord 2len here0.00 km0%total38 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
- 45.22362, 4.11398
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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.