HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #2080423310
Bassin de Canal de la Sensée
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 2 administrative regions : Nord, Pas-de-Calais
Sub-basin area
102km²
Upstream area
1 177,4km²
Discharge
16,35m³/s
Mean elev.
54m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de l'Hirondelle212 km²
- Bassin de la Sensée45 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 83.7 km²81.8% of basin
- 18.6 km²18.2% of basin
31 communes (GADM L5)Available for FRA, RWA
- Épinoy8.22 km²100% commune
- Paillencourt7.36 km²100% commune
- Oisy-le-Verger6.09 km²53% commune
- Haynecourt5.98 km²99% commune
- Abancourt5.54 km²100% commune
- Aubigny-au-Bac5.20 km²100% commune
- Hem-Lenglet4.99 km²100% commune
- Fressain4.97 km²75% commune
- Wasnes-au-Bac4.96 km²95% commune
- Féchain4.74 km²100% commune
- Fressies4.71 km²100% commune
- Bugnicourt4.55 km²71% commune
- Sancourt3.52 km²94% commune
- Sauchy-Lestrée3.51 km²38% commune
- Blécourt3.46 km²93% commune
- Aubencheul-au-Bac3.32 km²100% commune
- Bantigny3.26 km²100% commune
- Arleux3.02 km²27% commune
- Sailly-lez-Cambrai2.28 km²72% commune
- Brunémont2.01 km²100% commune
- Wavrechain-sous-Faulx1.55 km²40% commune
- Cuvillers1.52 km²48% commune
- Estrun1.42 km²57% commune
- Raillencourt-Sainte-Olle1.22 km²16% commune
- Villers-au-Tertre1.15 km²27% commune
- Bouchain1.05 km²8% commune
- Marcq-en-Ostrevent1.02 km²17% commune
- Bourlon0.81 km²7% commune
- Thun-l'Évêque0.76 km²12% commune
- Tilloy-lez-Cambrai0.08 km²3% commune
- Marquette-en-Ostrevant0.06 km²1% commune
2 intersecting protected areas
marais de fechain
IUCN IVLand acquired by a regional conservatory of natural areas
0.11 km² overlap
marais des vanneaux
IUCN IVLand acquired by a regional conservatory of natural areas
0.07 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
1 750 distinct species · 23 266 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 35 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 la Sensée : 26 espèces dont 1 patrimoniale (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 116 interactions GloBI sur 6 types (connectance 17.4%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 11 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
672mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,11
Runoff
402mm/an
PET
752mm
AET
540mm
Mean slope
1,0°
Water table
56cm
Forest
0%
Crops
57%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)