HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #2080535470
Bassin de la Briance
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 : Corrèze, Haute-Vienne
Sub-basin area
613,2km²
Upstream area
613,3km²
Discharge
8,53m³/s
Mean elev.
384m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 614.6 km²100.0% of basin
- 0.1 km²0.0% of basin
37 communes (GADM L5)Available for FRA, RWA
- Vicq-sur-Breuilh51.71 km²100% commune
- Saint-Priest-Ligoure40.73 km²97% commune
- La Croisille-sur-Briance40.38 km²91% commune
- Saint-Paul36.98 km²99% commune
- Saint-Germain-les-Belles34.89 km²92% commune
- Château-Chervix31.04 km²60% commune
- Linards30.05 km²84% commune
- Saint-Jean-Ligoure29.98 km²100% commune
- Saint-Hilaire-Bonneval29.12 km²100% commune
- Saint-Bonnet-Briance28.28 km²93% commune
- Le Vigen26.42 km²88% commune
- Saint-Méard24.62 km²100% commune
- Glanges22.71 km²100% commune
- Saint-Vitte-sur-Briance20.31 km²100% commune
- Saint-Genest-sur-Roselle19.25 km²100% commune
- Eyjeaux18.53 km²75% commune
- La Porcherie17.70 km²56% commune
- Boisseuil17.22 km²90% commune
- Janailhac15.44 km²82% commune
- Solignac14.56 km²88% commune
- La Geneytouse13.32 km²69% commune
- La Roche-l'Abeille8.80 km²24% commune
- Saint-Maurice-les-Brousses7.99 km²75% commune
- Magnac-Bourg7.22 km²47% commune
- Condat-sur-Vienne6.75 km²45% commune
- Pierre-Buffière6.17 km²100% commune
- Jourgnac3.88 km²26% commune
- Nexon2.99 km²7% commune
- Châteauneuf-la-Forêt2.85 km²10% commune
- Bosmie-l'Aiguille2.34 km²28% commune
- Surdoux1.58 km²42% commune
- Roziers-Saint-Georges0.26 km²2% commune
- Saint-Gilles-les-Forêts0.18 km²2% commune
- Saint-Denis-des-Murs0.18 km²1% commune
- Masseret0.14 km²1% commune
- Aureil0.13 km²1% commune
- Sussac0.02 km²0% commune
10 intersecting protected areas
Millevaches En Limousin
IUCN VRegional Nature Park
41.82 km² overlap
Pelouses et landes serpentinicoles du sud de la Haute Vienne
IUCN Not ReportedSpecial Areas of Conservation (Habitats Directive)
0.37 km² overlap
Biotope Protection Order
0.20 km² overlap
landes du mont gargan
IUCN IVLand acquired by a regional conservatory of natural areas
0.18 km² overlap
Land acquired by a regional conservatory of natural areas
0.15 km² overlap
Land acquired by a regional conservatory of natural areas
0.09 km² overlap
Land acquired by a regional conservatory of natural areas
0.05 km² overlap
zones humides le grand pre
IUCN IVLand acquired by a regional conservatory of natural areas
0.04 km² overlap
zones humides de lardimalie
IUCN IVLand acquired by a regional conservatory of natural areas
0.03 km² overlap
1 more protected areassorted by overlap area
Biotope Protection Order
0.00 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
3 850 distinct species · 185 964 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 37 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 Briance : 25 espèces reliées par 108 interactions GloBI sur 6 types (connectance 15.4%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 13 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°
10,8°C
Annual rain
1 045mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,11
Runoff
450mm/an
PET
925mm
AET
723mm
Mean slope
4,1°
Water table
334cm
Forest
5%
Crops
8%
Urban
0%
Protected
7%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)