HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #2080523290
Bassin de Fossé du Bois Billaud
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 : Charente-Maritime, Vendée
Sub-basin area
172,5km²
Upstream area
2 455km²
Discharge
42,2m³/s
Mean elev.
5m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de l'Autise423 km²
- Bassin de la Rigole d'Aziré73 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 97.2 km²56.2% of basin
- 75.8 km²43.8% of basin
19 communes (GADM L5)Available for FRA, RWA
- Saint-Jean-de-Liversay41.58 km²100% commune
- Vix28.76 km²100% commune
- Taugon16.01 km²100% commune
- Saint-Cyr-du-Doret14.95 km²87% commune
- L'Île-d'Elle14.38 km²76% commune
- Marans14.19 km²17% commune
- Montreuil9.96 km²85% commune
- Le Gué-de-Velluire8.12 km²64% commune
- Courçon5.70 km²29% commune
- Maillé5.11 km²30% commune
- Doix4.20 km²31% commune
- Velluire3.17 km²32% commune
- La Ronde3.13 km²15% commune
- Chaix2.05 km²27% commune
- Ferrières1.10 km²15% commune
- Nuaillé-d'Aunis0.46 km²3% commune
- Benon0.05 km²0% commune
- Saint-Sauveur-d'Aunis0.03 km²0% commune
- Fontaines0.01 km²0% commune
7 intersecting protected areas
Marais Poitevin
IUCN VRegional Nature Park
172.93 km² overlap
Marais poitevin
IUCN IIIWetland of International Importance (Ramsar Site)
19.40 km² overlap
Marais poitevin
IUCN Not ReportedSpecial Protection Area (Birds Directive)
15.66 km² overlap
Marais Poitevin
IUCN Not ReportedSpecial Areas of Conservation (Habitats Directive)
12.72 km² overlap
Marais Poitevin
IUCN Not ReportedSpecial Areas of Conservation (Habitats Directive)
2.94 km² overlap
bois de la vieille vaigue
IUCN IVLand acquired by a regional conservatory of natural areas
0.14 km² overlap
marais de taugon
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
1 580 distinct species · 33 196 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 Fossé du Bois Billaud : 28 espèces dont 2 patrimoniales (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 114 interactions GloBI sur 6 types (connectance 14.6%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 12 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°
12,5°C
Annual rain
761mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,09
Runoff
523mm/an
PET
840mm
AET
580mm
Mean slope
0,3°
Water table
21cm
Forest
0%
Crops
64%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)