HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #2080513040
Bassin de la Palu
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 : Vienne
Sub-basin area
450,9km²
Upstream area
3 129,3km²
Discharge
38,06m³/s
Mean elev.
105m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de la Boivre604 km²
- Bassin de l'Auxance326 km²
1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 452.1 km²100.0% of basin
45 communes (GADM L5)Available for FRA, RWA
- Saint-Georges-lès-Baillargeaux32.19 km²94% commune
- Vendeuvre-du-Poitou31.45 km²75% commune
- Jaunay-Clan27.38 km²100% commune
- Montamisé27.38 km²83% commune
- Dissay23.76 km²100% commune
- Champigny-le-Sec21.39 km²89% commune
- Beaumont21.30 km²96% commune
- Blaslay20.31 km²100% commune
- Naintré19.99 km²79% commune
- Neuville-de-Poitou16.71 km²100% commune
- Charrais15.18 km²100% commune
- Saint-Cyr14.46 km²99% commune
- Marigny-Brizay13.76 km²63% commune
- Lavoux13.05 km²86% commune
- Varennes12.65 km²98% commune
- Chasseneuil-du-Poitou12.31 km²71% commune
- Liniers10.39 km²65% commune
- Jardres10.06 km²48% commune
- Avanton9.44 km²90% commune
- Le Rochereau8.68 km²100% commune
- Vouneuil-sur-Vienne7.34 km²20% commune
- Vouzailles7.31 km²45% commune
- Tercé7.07 km²30% commune
- Saint-Julien-l'Ars6.90 km²36% commune
- Bignoux6.76 km²48% commune
- Thurageau6.10 km²17% commune
- Chabournay5.79 km²100% commune
- Mirebeau5.50 km²40% commune
- Cheneché5.34 km²99% commune
- Amberre4.86 km²31% commune
- Yversay4.31 km²75% commune
- Villiers3.83 km²34% commune
- Pouillé3.73 km²27% commune
- Cissé3.32 km²19% commune
- La Chapelle-Moulière2.84 km²16% commune
- Maillé2.42 km²20% commune
- Cenon-sur-Vienne2.28 km²26% commune
- Châtellerault1.81 km²3% commune
- Frozes1.24 km²13% commune
- Colombiers0.47 km²2% commune
- Chouppes0.35 km²1% commune
- Cherves0.32 km²1% commune
- Bonneuil-Matours0.21 km²0% commune
- Sèvres-Anxaumont0.12 km²1% commune
- Migné-Auxances0.05 km²0% commune
12 intersecting protected areas
Plaines du Mirebalais et du Neuvillois
IUCN Not ReportedSpecial Protection Area (Birds Directive)
64.34 km² overlap
Special Protection Area (Birds Directive)
48.52 km² overlap
Landes du Pinail
IUCN Not ReportedSpecial Areas of Conservation (Habitats Directive)
4.02 km² overlap
Le Pinail
IUCN IVWetland of International Importance (Ramsar Site)
3.98 km² overlap
Biotope Protection Order
0.42 km² overlap
Site de Saint Cyr
IUCN IVRegional Nature Reserve
0.39 km² overlap
Land acquired by a regional conservatory of natural areas
0.20 km² overlap
Pinail
IUCN IVNational Nature Reserve
0.10 km² overlap
plaine de charrais-avanton
IUCN IVLand acquired by a regional conservatory of natural areas
0.08 km² overlap
3 more protected areassorted by overlap area
coteau des pendants
IUCN IVLand acquired by a regional conservatory of natural areas
0.04 km² overlap
vallee de la palu
IUCN IVLand acquired by a regional conservatory of natural areas
0.01 km² overlap
mare de la genetiere
IUCN IVLand acquired by a regional conservatory of natural areas
0.00 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
4 625 distinct species · 238 513 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 Palu : 30 espèces dont 2 patrimoniales (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 96 interactions GloBI sur 5 types (connectance 12.3%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 10 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
724mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,18
Runoff
265mm/an
PET
885mm
AET
594mm
Mean slope
1,4°
Water table
97cm
Forest
7%
Crops
63%
Urban
3%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)