HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #2080509660
Bassin de la Creuse
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
244,1km²
Upstream area
8 029,4km²
Discharge
75,23m³/s
Mean elev.
108m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de la Gartempe3880 km²
- Bassin de la Creuse681 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 174.3 km²71.2% of basin
- 70.4 km²28.8% of basin
21 communes (GADM L5)Available for FRA, RWA
- Coussay-les-Bois43.14 km²98% commune
- Leigné-les-Bois25.37 km²85% commune
- La Roche-Posay22.68 km²64% commune
- Barrou22.58 km²71% commune
- Mairé19.70 km²95% commune
- Chambon16.80 km²91% commune
- Yzeures-sur-Creuse16.62 km²30% commune
- Leugny15.44 km²97% commune
- Pleumartin13.88 km²57% commune
- Lésigny12.46 km²100% commune
- Saint-Rémy-sur-Creuse9.58 km²75% commune
- Abilly5.52 km²18% commune
- La Guerche5.29 km²100% commune
- Saint-Sauveur5.23 km²16% commune
- Oyré4.36 km²13% commune
- Boussay3.55 km²13% commune
- Senillé1.46 km²8% commune
- Chenevelles0.44 km²2% commune
- Les Ormes0.31 km²1% commune
- Dangé-Saint-Romain0.29 km²1% commune
- Chaumussay0.07 km²0% commune
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
2 806 distinct species · 104 096 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 35 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 Creuse : 22 espèces dont 2 patrimoniales (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 128 interactions GloBI sur 6 types (connectance 20.3%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 14 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°
11,4°C
Annual rain
728mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,18
Runoff
226mm/an
PET
886mm
AET
600mm
Mean slope
2,2°
Water table
186cm
Forest
15%
Crops
59%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)