HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #2080543420
Bassin de la Rhue
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 3 administrative regions : Cantal, Corrèze, Puy-de-Dôme
Sub-basin area
898,7km²
Upstream area
898,8km²
Discharge
31,83m³/s
Mean elev.
1 037m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 648.2 km²72.0% of basin
- 249.3 km²27.7% of basin
- 3.2 km²0.4% of basin
49 communes (GADM L5)Available for FRA, RWA
- Champs-sur-Tarentaine-Marchal61.72 km²100% commune
- Égliseneuve-d'Entraigues57.05 km²100% commune
- Marcenat47.87 km²93% commune
- Picherande45.21 km²100% commune
- Dienne41.01 km²88% commune
- Condat40.59 km²100% commune
- Saint-Saturnin39.85 km²100% commune
- Riom-ès-Montagnes33.57 km²71% commune
- Saint-Donat33.04 km²100% commune
- Cheylade32.29 km²100% commune
- Saint-Genès-Champespe32.09 km²100% commune
- Saint-Amandin31.78 km²100% commune
- Trémouille29.17 km²100% commune
- Le Claux28.17 km²99% commune
- Ségur-les-Villas25.56 km²97% commune
- Lavigerie23.62 km²98% commune
- Marchastel23.28 km²100% commune
- Collandres23.01 km²53% commune
- Montboudif20.30 km²100% commune
- Chanterelle19.49 km²100% commune
- Saint-Bonnet-de-Condat17.48 km²99% commune
- Montgreleix17.18 km²100% commune
- Besse-et-Saint-Anastaise16.44 km²23% commune
- La Godivelle14.52 km²95% commune
- Saint-Hippolyte14.06 km²100% commune
- Saint-Étienne-de-Chomeil13.69 km²50% commune
- Lanobre13.55 km²31% commune
- Lugarde13.19 km²100% commune
- Chastreix13.08 km²29% commune
- Apchon12.28 km²100% commune
- Vebret11.61 km²47% commune
- Compains10.09 km²20% commune
- Espinchal8.95 km²100% commune
- Bagnols7.15 km²17% commune
- Antignac6.75 km²43% commune
- Cros5.82 km²29% commune
- Anzat-le-Luguet3.28 km²5% commune
- Bort-les-Orgues3.24 km²21% commune
- Landeyrat2.59 km²12% commune
- Le Falgoux1.86 km²6% commune
- Chambon-sur-Lac1.52 km²3% commune
- Vernols1.17 km²5% commune
- Saint-Alyre-ès-Montagne1.01 km²2% commune
- Laveissière0.82 km²2% commune
- Chastel-sur-Murat0.52 km²4% commune
- Mandailles-Saint-Julien0.15 km²0% commune
- Mont-Dore0.12 km²0% commune
- Chavagnac0.04 km²0% commune
- Pradiers0.00 km²0% commune
27 intersecting protected areas
Volcans D\'Auvergne
IUCN VRegional Nature Park
886.07 km² overlap
Monts-Dore
IUCN Not ReportedSpecial Areas of Conservation (Habitats Directive)
15.48 km² overlap
Cézallier
IUCN Not ReportedSpecial Areas of Conservation (Habitats Directive)
13.60 km² overlap
Chastreix-Sancy
IUCN IVNational Nature Reserve
11.52 km² overlap
Gorges de la Rhue
IUCN Not ReportedSpecial Areas of Conservation (Habitats Directive)
10.19 km² overlap
Massif cantalien
IUCN Not ReportedSpecial Areas of Conservation (Habitats Directive)
8.89 km² overlap
Tourbières et zones humides du nord-est du massif cantalien
IUCN Not ReportedSpecial Areas of Conservation (Habitats Directive)
7.89 km² overlap
Artense
IUCN Not ReportedSpecial Areas of Conservation (Habitats Directive)
6.84 km² overlap
Zones humides de la région de Riom-es-Montagne
IUCN Not ReportedSpecial Areas of Conservation (Habitats Directive)
6.15 km² overlap
18 more protected areassorted by overlap area
Sagnes De La Godivelle
IUCN IVNational Nature Reserve
1.40 km² overlap
Regional Nature Reserve
1.28 km² overlap
Tourbière De Chambedaze
IUCN IVBiotope Protection Order
0.60 km² overlap
Land acquired by a regional conservatory of natural areas
0.34 km² overlap
Tourbière De L\'Esclauze
IUCN IVBiotope Protection Order
0.34 km² overlap
Monts et Plomb du Cantal
IUCN Not ReportedSpecial Protection Area (Birds Directive)
0.31 km² overlap
Protected perimeter around a national nature reserve
0.24 km² overlap
Land acquired by a regional conservatory of natural areas
0.23 km² overlap
Tourbière De La Morthe
IUCN IVBiotope Protection Order
0.16 km² overlap
Biotope Protection Order
0.15 km² overlap
tourbiere de crespy-greloux
IUCN IVLand acquired by a regional conservatory of natural areas
0.14 km² overlap
tourbiere de coussounoux
IUCN IVLand acquired by a regional conservatory of natural areas
0.13 km² overlap
Vallées de l'Allanche et du Haut Alagnon
IUCN Not ReportedSpecial Areas of Conservation (Habitats Directive)
0.09 km² overlap
Vallée De Chaudefour
IUCN IVNational Nature Reserve
0.05 km² overlap
tourbiere de la rodde
IUCN IVLand acquired by a regional conservatory of natural areas
0.04 km² overlap
tourbiere des vicarias
IUCN IVLand acquired by a regional conservatory of natural areas
0.04 km² overlap
Biotope Protection Order
0.02 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
5 063 distinct species · 378 748 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 31 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 Rhue : 26 espèces + 5 bulles famille, 48 interactions GloBI documentées sur 7 types (connectance 10.3%, 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°
7,5°C
Annual rain
878mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,09
Runoff
679mm/an
PET
793mm
AET
659mm
Mean slope
8,1°
Water table
446cm
Forest
29%
Crops
9%
Urban
0%
Protected
98%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)