HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #2080492530
Bassin de la Vilaine
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 : Loire-Atlantique, Morbihan
Sub-basin area
77,8km²
Upstream area
9 350,8km²
Discharge
151,05m³/s
Mean elev.
31m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin du Don2421 km²
- Bassin de l'Arz350 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 57.6 km²73.8% of basin
- 20.4 km²26.2% of basin
7 communes (GADM L5)Available for FRA, RWA
- Avessac28.37 km²37% commune
- Fégréac20.28 km²46% commune
- Rieux12.42 km²45% commune
- Saint-Nicolas-de-Redon8.88 km²40% commune
- Allaire6.60 km²16% commune
- Saint-Jean-la-Poterie1.41 km²17% commune
- Plessé0.04 km²0% commune
1 intersecting protected areas
Marais de Vilaine
IUCN Not ReportedSpecial Areas of Conservation (Habitats Directive)
12.70 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
1 375 distinct species · 7 008 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 40 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 Vilaine : 34 espèces + 6 bulles famille, 95 interactions GloBI documentées sur 5 types (connectance 12.2%, 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°
11,5°C
Annual rain
778mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,02
Runoff
517mm/an
PET
792mm
AET
568mm
Mean slope
1,6°
Water table
131cm
Forest
1%
Crops
68%
Urban
2%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)