HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #2080533170
Bassin de la Gorre
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, Haute-Vienne
Sub-basin area
205,5km²
Upstream area
205,6km²
Discharge
2,53m³/s
Mean elev.
306m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 204.5 km²99.3% of basin
- 1.5 km²0.7% of basin
18 communes (GADM L5)Available for FRA, RWA
- Saint-Laurent-sur-Gorre38.89 km²97% commune
- Saint-Auvent26.22 km²78% commune
- Pageas22.40 km²81% commune
- Rochechouart20.85 km²39% commune
- Saint-Cyr20.35 km²97% commune
- Champsac18.60 km²80% commune
- Gorre16.73 km²100% commune
- Oradour-sur-Vayres12.92 km²32% commune
- Chaillac-sur-Vienne8.23 km²53% commune
- Séreilhac5.88 km²15% commune
- Flavignac4.31 km²14% commune
- Champagnac-la-Rivière3.95 km²16% commune
- Saillat-sur-Vienne3.04 km²48% commune
- Chassenon1.51 km²6% commune
- Cognac-la-Forêt0.81 km²2% commune
- Châlus0.78 km²3% commune
- Saint-Martin-de-Jussac0.49 km²3% commune
- Saint-Junien0.04 km²0% commune
11 intersecting protected areas
Périgord-Limousin
IUCN VRegional Nature Park
187.14 km² overlap
Etang de la Pouge
IUCN Not ReportedSpecial Areas of Conservation (Habitats Directive)
2.26 km² overlap
Regional Nature Reserve
0.15 km² overlap
Land acquired by a regional conservatory of natural areas
0.11 km² overlap
Land acquired by a regional conservatory of natural areas
0.05 km² overlap
lande de massaloux
IUCN IVLand acquired by a regional conservatory of natural areas
0.05 km² overlap
lande de beaubreuil
IUCN IVLand acquired by a regional conservatory of natural areas
0.03 km² overlap
lande de chandeau
IUCN IVLand acquired by a regional conservatory of natural areas
0.03 km² overlap
Land acquired by a regional conservatory of natural areas
0.02 km² overlap
2 more protected areassorted by overlap area
lande de ballot
IUCN IVLand acquired by a regional conservatory of natural areas
0.02 km² overlap
National Nature Reserve
0.00 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
1 975 distinct species · 53 063 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 39 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 Gorre : 34 espèces + 5 bulles famille, 82 interactions GloBI documentées sur 3 types (connectance 11.1%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). Les 5 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°
11,1°C
Annual rain
1 009mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,08
Runoff
396mm/an
PET
928mm
AET
706mm
Mean slope
3,0°
Water table
281cm
Forest
5%
Crops
3%
Urban
0%
Protected
91%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)