HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #2080418170
Bassin de l'Orneau
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 3 administrative regions : Brabant Wallon, Hainaut, Namur
Sub-basin area
198,8km²
Upstream area
198,8km²
Discharge
2,45m³/s
Mean elev.
155m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 148.8 km²74.6% of basin
- 41.4 km²20.8% of basin
- 9.3 km²4.7% of basin
5 intersecting protected areas
Vallée de l'Orneau
IUCN Not ReportedSpecial Protection Area (Birds Directive)
3.03 km² overlap
Vallée de l'Orneau
IUCN Not ReportedSpecial Areas of Conservation (Habitats Directive)
3.03 km² overlap
Fonds Gatot et Laid Mâle
IUCN IVScientific Interest Site (Walloon Region)
0.10 km² overlap
Mottes (Les)
IUCN IVState Nature Reserve (Walloon Region)
0.08 km² overlap
Escaille
IUCN IVCertified Nature Reserve (Walloon Region)
0.05 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
3 631 distinct species · 82 409 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 Bassin de l'Orneau : 26 espèces + 6 bulles famille, 63 interactions GloBI documentées sur 3 types (connectance 12.7%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). Les 6 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°
9,6°C
Annual rain
844mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,10
Runoff
389mm/an
PET
757mm
AET
589mm
Mean slope
1,4°
Water table
97cm
Forest
0%
Crops
53%
Urban
23%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)