HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #2080507930
Bassin de l'Esves
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 : Indre-et-Loire, Vienne
Sub-basin area
322,6km²
Upstream area
9 539km²
Discharge
86,15m³/s
Mean elev.
100m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de la Claise1187 km²
- Bassin de la Creuse244 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 299.5 km²92.6% of basin
- 23.9 km²7.4% of basin
31 communes (GADM L5)Available for FRA, RWA
- Descartes38.68 km²100% commune
- Ligueil29.63 km²99% commune
- La Chapelle-Blanche-Saint-Martin25.49 km²90% commune
- Saint-Senoch23.11 km²98% commune
- Cussay22.96 km²87% commune
- Vou18.57 km²83% commune
- La Celle-Saint-Avant16.28 km²93% commune
- Bournan14.67 km²98% commune
- Betz-le-Château14.08 km²30% commune
- Ciran13.98 km²100% commune
- Civray-sur-Esves13.16 km²100% commune
- Mouzay11.45 km²49% commune
- Buxeuil11.22 km²95% commune
- Marcé-sur-Esves10.98 km²99% commune
- Varennes10.49 km²94% commune
- Esves-le-Moutier10.41 km²96% commune
- Sepmes6.36 km²22% commune
- Abilly5.35 km²17% commune
- Port-de-Piles5.02 km²86% commune
- Les Ormes4.52 km²19% commune
- Verneuil-sur-Indre4.14 km²10% commune
- Saint-Rémy-sur-Creuse3.19 km²25% commune
- Perrusson3.03 km²10% commune
- Ferrière-Larçon2.89 km²14% commune
- Nouâtre0.99 km²10% commune
- Neuilly-le-Brignon0.95 km²4% commune
- Maillé0.56 km²4% commune
- Bossée0.56 km²3% commune
- Loches0.43 km²2% commune
- Draché0.32 km²2% commune
- Paulmy0.01 km²0% commune
1 intersecting protected areas
bec des deux eaux (le)
IUCN IVLand acquired by a regional conservatory of natural areas
0.04 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
2 184 distinct species · 76 050 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 41 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 l'Esves : 37 espèces + 4 bulles famille, 89 interactions GloBI documentées sur 4 types (connectance 10.9%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). Les 4 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°
11,4°C
Annual rain
703mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,20
Runoff
214mm/an
PET
878mm
AET
588mm
Mean slope
1,6°
Water table
117cm
Forest
1%
Crops
70%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)