HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #2080517100
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 : Creuse, Indre
Sub-basin area
590,4km²
Upstream area
2 690km²
Discharge
26,39m³/s
Mean elev.
293m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de la Creuse1242 km²
- Bassin de la Petite Creuse857 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 306.4 km²51.8% of basin
- 285.5 km²48.2% of basin
48 communes (GADM L5)Available for FRA, RWA
- Saint-Agnant-de-Versillat40.32 km²80% commune
- Orsennes40.11 km²81% commune
- Naillat36.54 km²100% commune
- Saint-Plantaire34.45 km²100% commune
- Crozant31.58 km²100% commune
- Argenton-sur-Creuse25.27 km²86% commune
- Éguzon-Chantôme25.27 km²70% commune
- Noth21.75 km²94% commune
- Lafat20.82 km²100% commune
- Cuzion18.77 km²100% commune
- Montchevrier18.12 km²52% commune
- Ceaulmont17.24 km²100% commune
- Le Pêchereau17.14 km²82% commune
- Saint-Germain-Beaupré17.01 km²100% commune
- Baraize16.60 km²100% commune
- Gargilesse-Dampierre15.85 km²100% commune
- La Souterraine15.22 km²41% commune
- Saint-Marcel14.78 km²82% commune
- Sagnat11.84 km²100% commune
- Pommiers11.28 km²96% commune
- Fleurat10.75 km²90% commune
- Colondannes10.72 km²100% commune
- Badecon-le-Pin10.54 km²100% commune
- Chavin10.29 km²73% commune
- Saint-Priest-la-Feuille9.72 km²35% commune
- Saint-Léger-Bridereix8.77 km²100% commune
- La Chapelle-Baloue8.76 km²96% commune
- Celon8.60 km²50% commune
- Dun-le-Palestel7.98 km²78% commune
- Bazaiges7.24 km²37% commune
- Fresselines6.07 km²20% commune
- Le Menoux5.67 km²100% commune
- Méasnes5.63 km²21% commune
- Bussière-Dunoise5.51 km²13% commune
- Saint-Sébastien5.41 km²21% commune
- Lizières3.97 km²28% commune
- Maison-Feyne3.59 km²27% commune
- Thenay2.69 km²8% commune
- Lourdoueix-Saint-Michel2.42 km²12% commune
- Le Pont-Chrétien-Chabenet1.95 km²21% commune
- Saint-Priest-la-Plaine1.64 km²8% commune
- Vigoux1.54 km²4% commune
- Saint-Sulpice-le-Dunois0.95 km²3% commune
- Bazelat0.80 km²6% commune
- Malicornay0.41 km²2% commune
- Cluis0.17 km²0% commune
- Vareilles0.09 km²1% commune
- Le Grand-Bourg0.09 km²0% commune
8 intersecting protected areas
Vallée de la Creuse et affluents
IUCN Not ReportedSpecial Areas of Conservation (Habitats Directive)
31.95 km² overlap
La Brenne
IUCN Not ReportedWetland of International Importance (Ramsar Site)
7.71 km² overlap
Brenne
IUCN VRegional Nature Park
4.23 km² overlap
Vallée de la Creuse
IUCN Not ReportedSpecial Areas of Conservation (Habitats Directive)
3.96 km² overlap
la grange du bois et josnon
IUCN IVLand acquired by a regional conservatory of natural areas
0.30 km² overlap
zones humides de la prade
IUCN IVLand acquired by a regional conservatory of natural areas
0.02 km² overlap
les combes de la cazine
IUCN IVLand acquired by a regional conservatory of natural areas
0.01 km² overlap
Land 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
4 429 distinct species · 225 367 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 la Creuse : 32 espèces reliées par 111 interactions GloBI sur 6 types (connectance 12.9%, 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°
10,6°C
Annual rain
857mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,03
Runoff
300mm/an
PET
879mm
AET
653mm
Mean slope
3,0°
Water table
271cm
Forest
5%
Crops
17%
Urban
2%
Protected
1%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)