HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #2080427490
Bassin de la Meuse
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 across 2 countries : Ardennes, Namur
Sub-basin area
313,3km²
Upstream area
9 520,8km²
Discharge
113,44m³/s
Mean elev.
315m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de la Meuse1489 km²
- Bassin de la Semois1335 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 297.7 km²94.7% of basin
- 16.7 km²5.3% of basin
23 communes (GADM L5)Available for FRA, RWA
- Revin38.90 km²100% commune
- Fumay37.31 km²99% commune
- Les Mazures36.89 km²100% commune
- Rocroi33.13 km²65% commune
- Haybes27.83 km²100% commune
- Monthermé22.73 km²70% commune
- Hargnies21.75 km²52% commune
- Bourg-Fidèle13.68 km²92% commune
- Vireux-Wallerand12.67 km²60% commune
- Sécheval11.06 km²84% commune
- Renwez8.16 km²50% commune
- Deville7.89 km²100% commune
- Harcy7.37 km²39% commune
- Montigny-sur-Meuse5.32 km²65% commune
- Fépin4.51 km²79% commune
- Laifour2.84 km²100% commune
- Montcornet2.09 km²17% commune
- Anchamps1.88 km²100% commune
- Thilay0.86 km²2% commune
- Vireux-Molhain0.78 km²10% commune
- Gué-d'Hossus0.04 km²1% commune
- Bogny-sur-Meuse0.00 km²0% commune
- Hierges0.00 km²0% commune
15 intersecting protected areas
Ardennes
IUCN VRegional Nature Park
297.79 km² overlap
Plateau ardennais
IUCN Not ReportedSpecial Protection Area (Birds Directive)
271.48 km² overlap
Marais Des Hauts Buttés
IUCN IVBiotope Protection Order
1.37 km² overlap
Tourbières du plateau ardennais
IUCN Not ReportedSpecial Areas of Conservation (Habitats Directive)
0.61 km² overlap
Land acquired by a regional conservatory of natural areas
0.51 km² overlap
Vallée du Ruisseau d'Alisse
IUCN Not ReportedSpecial Areas of Conservation (Habitats Directive)
0.24 km² overlap
Rièzes du plateau de Rocroi
IUCN Not ReportedSpecial Areas of Conservation (Habitats Directive)
0.12 km² overlap
ardoisières de haybes
IUCN IVLand acquired by a regional conservatory of natural areas
0.05 km² overlap
Forêts de la vallée de la Semoy a Thilay et Hautes-rivières
IUCN Not ReportedSpecial Areas of Conservation (Habitats Directive)
0.03 km² overlap
6 more protected areassorted by overlap area
Land acquired by a regional conservatory of natural areas
0.03 km² overlap
Ardoisières de Monthermé et de Deville
IUCN Not ReportedSpecial Areas of Conservation (Habitats Directive)
0.01 km² overlap
Ardoisière d\'Oignies
IUCN IVScientific Interest Site (Walloon Region)
0.01 km² overlap
St Joseph (Galerie)
IUCN IVState Nature Reserve (Walloon Region)
0.00 km² overlap
Ardoisière le Sauveur
IUCN IVState Nature Reserve (Walloon Region)
0.00 km² overlap
etang du vieux pré
IUCN IVLand acquired by a regional conservatory of natural areas
0.00 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
3 708 distinct species · 83 784 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 Bassin de la Meuse : 32 espèces reliées par 96 interactions GloBI sur 5 types (connectance 13.0%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 7 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°
8,8°C
Annual rain
1 006mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,25
Runoff
343mm/an
PET
746mm
AET
616mm
Mean slope
7,4°
Water table
406cm
Forest
91%
Crops
2%
Urban
2%
Protected
99%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)