HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #2080421660
Bassin de Canal de L'Escaut
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 1 administrative regions : Nord
Sub-basin area
77,1km²
Upstream area
2 105km²
Discharge
27,06m³/s
Mean elev.
47m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Escaut850 km²
- Bassin de Canal de la Sensée102 km²
1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 77.4 km²100.0% of basin
24 communes (GADM L5)Available for FRA, RWA
- Bouchain11.39 km²92% commune
- Escaudain7.89 km²75% commune
- Marquette-en-Ostrevant7.38 km²99% commune
- Mastaing6.48 km²100% commune
- Monchecourt6.00 km²82% commune
- Marcq-en-Ostrevent5.06 km²83% commune
- Lieu-Saint-Amand4.84 km²100% commune
- Neuville-sur-Escaut4.68 km²100% commune
- Rœulx4.06 km²100% commune
- Abscon3.59 km²49% commune
- Émerchicourt3.01 km²58% commune
- Hordain2.62 km²45% commune
- Lourches2.60 km²100% commune
- Wavrechain-sous-Faulx2.32 km²60% commune
- Fressain1.64 km²25% commune
- Douchy-les-Mines0.97 km²11% commune
- Avesnes-le-Sec0.93 km²9% commune
- Noyelles-sur-Selle0.51 km²10% commune
- Villers-au-Tertre0.49 km²12% commune
- Denain0.40 km²3% commune
- Wasnes-au-Bac0.29 km²5% commune
- Estrun0.14 km²6% commune
- Auberchicourt0.11 km²2% commune
- Hélesmes0.00 km²0% commune
1 intersecting protected areas
Scarpe-Escaut
IUCN VRegional Nature Park
0.04 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
2 232 distinct species · 43 570 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 30 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 Canal de L'Escaut : 24 espèces reliées par 83 interactions GloBI sur 5 types (connectance 19.1%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 6 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°
10,0°C
Annual rain
682mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,09
Runoff
407mm/an
PET
752mm
AET
544mm
Mean slope
0,8°
Water table
52cm
Forest
0%
Crops
48%
Urban
39%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)