HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #2080502630
Bassin du Cher
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 : Cher, Loir-et-Cher
Sub-basin area
45,9km²
Upstream area
6 791,5km²
Discharge
50,53m³/s
Mean elev.
134m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Canal de Berry2229 km²
- Bassin du Cher616 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 45.8 km²99.4% of basin
- 0.3 km²0.6% of basin
4 communes (GADM L5)Available for FRA, RWA
1 intersecting protected areas
ile marie (l\')
IUCN IVLand acquired by a regional conservatory of natural areas
0.03 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
3 653 distinct species · 81 859 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 46 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 du Cher : 33 espèces reliées par 134 interactions GloBI sur 5 types (connectance 12.9%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 13 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°
11,1°C
Annual rain
689mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,21
Runoff
224mm/an
PET
868mm
AET
580mm
Mean slope
1,4°
Water table
190cm
Forest
22%
Crops
33%
Urban
55%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)