HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #2080530070
Bassin du Buron
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 : Allier, Puy-de-Dôme
Sub-basin area
185,6km²
Upstream area
7 153,5km²
Discharge
73,1m³/s
Mean elev.
334m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de l'Allier1960 km²
- Bassin du Bédat903 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 184.5 km²99.2% of basin
- 1.6 km²0.8% of basin
31 communes (GADM L5)Available for FRA, RWA
- Luzillat21.63 km²90% commune
- Effiat19.24 km²97% commune
- Mons13.37 km²92% commune
- Limons12.76 km²83% commune
- Randan11.64 km²76% commune
- Bussières-et-Pruns11.60 km²97% commune
- Bas-et-Lezat11.18 km²89% commune
- Saint-Clément-de-Régnat10.74 km²73% commune
- Saint-Denis-Combarnazat10.48 km²100% commune
- Aigueperse10.08 km²95% commune
- Villeneuve-les-Cerfs9.27 km²89% commune
- Vinzelles7.73 km²57% commune
- Chaptuzat5.79 km²77% commune
- Beaumont-lès-Randan5.68 km²100% commune
- Montpensier5.55 km²74% commune
- Thuret4.42 km²26% commune
- Crevant-Laveine4.23 km²21% commune
- Saint-Priest-Bramefant2.95 km²16% commune
- Charnat2.27 km²43% commune
- Saint-André-le-Coq1.20 km²7% commune
- Vensat0.91 km²6% commune
- Biozat0.79 km²5% commune
- Aubiat0.47 km²3% commune
- Maringues0.46 km²2% commune
- Brugheas0.42 km²2% commune
- Mariol0.34 km²3% commune
- Artonne0.26 km²1% commune
- Saint-Agoulin0.24 km²3% commune
- Bulhon0.21 km²2% commune
- Saint-Genès-du-Retz0.11 km²1% commune
- Charmes0.01 km²0% commune
8 intersecting protected areas
Val d'allier Saint Yorre-Joze
IUCN Not ReportedSpecial Protection Area (Birds Directive)
19.83 km² overlap
Zones alluviales de la confluence Dore-Allier
IUCN Not ReportedSpecial Areas of Conservation (Habitats Directive)
7.88 km² overlap
Vallée de l'Allier sud
IUCN Not ReportedSpecial Areas of Conservation (Habitats Directive)
0.14 km² overlap
Rivière Allier
IUCN IVBiotope Protection Order
0.04 km² overlap
Livradois-Forez
IUCN VRegional Nature Park
0.01 km² overlap
Land acquired by a regional conservatory of natural areas
0.01 km² overlap
val d\'allier a charnat
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
1 880 distinct species · 30 353 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 29 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 du Buron : 22 espèces + 7 bulles famille, 86 interactions GloBI documentées sur 5 types (connectance 21.2%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). Les 7 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°
10,7°C
Annual rain
692mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,25
Runoff
255mm/an
PET
920mm
AET
586mm
Mean slope
1,9°
Water table
171cm
Forest
9%
Crops
63%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)