HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #2080460960
Bassin de la Meurthe
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 : Meurthe-et-Moselle
Sub-basin area
413,4km²
Upstream area
3 061,6km²
Discharge
48,27m³/s
Mean elev.
263m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 414.6 km²100.0% of basin
72 communes (GADM L5)Available for FRA, RWA
- Champigneulles22.99 km²96% commune
- Laxou16.20 km²100% commune
- Nancy15.45 km²100% commune
- Réméréville13.50 km²100% commune
- Laneuveville-devant-Nancy12.13 km²100% commune
- Art-sur-Meurthe11.71 km²100% commune
- Lenoncourt11.62 km²100% commune
- Lay-Saint-Christophe11.42 km²100% commune
- Varangéville11.39 km²93% commune
- Rosières-aux-Salines11.04 km²40% commune
- Champenoux10.79 km²95% commune
- Bouxières-aux-Chênes10.77 km²55% commune
- Amance10.74 km²78% commune
- Haraucourt10.73 km²94% commune
- Ville-en-Vermois10.72 km²100% commune
- Villers-lès-Nancy9.88 km²100% commune
- Laneuvelotte9.18 km²100% commune
- Vandœuvre-lès-Nancy8.86 km²100% commune
- Saint-Nicolas-de-Port8.36 km²100% commune
- Eulmont8.32 km²100% commune
- Cerville8.06 km²100% commune
- Malzéville7.61 km²100% commune
- Buissoncourt7.54 km²100% commune
- Saulxures-lès-Nancy7.39 km²100% commune
- Fléville-devant-Nancy7.33 km²100% commune
- Lupcourt6.75 km²100% commune
- Manoncourt-en-Vermois6.75 km²100% commune
- Drouville6.62 km²91% commune
- Courbesseaux6.24 km²100% commune
- Velaine-sous-Amance6.01 km²100% commune
- Maxéville5.83 km²100% commune
- Frouard5.61 km²44% commune
- Essey-lès-Nancy5.61 km²100% commune
- Tomblaine5.53 km²100% commune
- Laître-sous-Amance5.37 km²100% commune
- Coyviller4.35 km²100% commune
- Seichamps4.34 km²100% commune
- Gellenoncourt4.30 km²100% commune
- Hoéville4.22 km²49% commune
- Azelot4.22 km²87% commune
- Agincourt4.15 km²100% commune
- Dommartin-sous-Amance4.09 km²100% commune
- Houdemont3.99 km²100% commune
- Serres3.79 km²25% commune
- Erbéviller-sur-Amezule3.71 km²88% commune
- Bouxières-aux-Dames3.69 km²100% commune
- Heillecourt3.51 km²100% commune
- Pulnoy3.42 km²100% commune
- Burthecourt-aux-Chênes3.29 km²62% commune
- Ludres3.27 km²39% commune
- Chaligny3.13 km²23% commune
- Maron2.55 km²14% commune
- Faulx2.55 km²14% commune
- Jarville-la-Malgrange2.49 km²100% commune
- Saint-Max1.86 km²100% commune
- Chavigny1.67 km²25% commune
- Flavigny-sur-Moselle1.46 km²8% commune
- Dommartemont1.37 km²100% commune
- Custines1.31 km²11% commune
- Richardménil1.17 km²17% commune
- Velaine-en-Haye0.88 km²5% commune
- Mazerulles0.61 km²9% commune
- Tonnoy0.43 km²3% commune
- Crévic0.27 km²3% commune
- Dombasle-sur-Meurthe0.13 km²1% commune
- Ferrières0.09 km²1% commune
- Montenoy0.08 km²2% commune
- Malleloy0.07 km²2% commune
- Maixe0.05 km²0% commune
- Sornéville0.02 km²0% commune
- Leyr0.01 km²0% commune
- Liverdun0.00 km²0% commune
3 intersecting protected areas
Plateau de Malzéville
IUCN Not ReportedSpecial Areas of Conservation (Habitats Directive)
4.39 km² overlap
Biotope Protection Order
0.05 km² overlap
Etang De Merrey
IUCN IVBiotope Protection Order
0.02 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
6 203 distinct species · 253 877 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 42 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 Meurthe : 31 espèces reliées par 107 interactions GloBI sur 6 types (connectance 11.8%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 12 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°
9,4°C
Annual rain
765mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,03
Runoff
358mm/an
PET
792mm
AET
592mm
Mean slope
3,1°
Water table
205cm
Forest
11%
Crops
31%
Urban
30%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)