HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #2080535190
Bassin de la Vienne
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 : Haute-Vienne
Sub-basin area
222,3km²
Upstream area
2 420,7km²
Discharge
30,93m³/s
Mean elev.
337m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de la Vienne1164 km²
- Bassin du Thaurion1035 km²
1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 222.9 km²100.0% of basin
20 communes (GADM L5)Available for FRA, RWA
- Limoges33.94 km²42% commune
- Saint-Just-le-Martel28.03 km²87% commune
- Feytiat24.53 km²100% commune
- Panazol19.45 km²100% commune
- Bonnac-la-Côte18.70 km²72% commune
- Ambazac17.39 km²30% commune
- Rilhac-Rancon17.19 km²100% commune
- Saint-Priest-Taurion12.11 km²44% commune
- Le Palais-sur-Vienne10.65 km²100% commune
- Aureil9.36 km²93% commune
- Condat-sur-Vienne7.94 km²53% commune
- Eyjeaux6.03 km²25% commune
- Isle5.06 km²26% commune
- Saint-Sylvestre3.57 km²11% commune
- Le Vigen2.57 km²9% commune
- Compreignac1.99 km²4% commune
- Boisseuil1.90 km²10% commune
- Solignac1.67 km²10% commune
- Royères0.44 km²3% commune
- La Geneytouse0.33 km²2% commune
2 intersecting protected areas
Mine de Chabannes et souterrains des Monts d'Ambazac
IUCN Not ReportedSpecial Areas of Conservation (Habitats Directive)
4.02 km² overlap
Land acquired by a regional conservatory of natural areas
0.01 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
4 718 distinct species · 193 316 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 38 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 Vienne : 22 espèces reliées par 110 interactions GloBI sur 6 types (connectance 14.8%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 17 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°
10,9°C
Annual rain
1 056mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,12
Runoff
388mm/an
PET
924mm
AET
721mm
Mean slope
3,5°
Water table
310cm
Forest
36%
Crops
16%
Urban
29%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)