HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #2080544340
Bassin de la Dordogne
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 : Cantal, Corrèze
Sub-basin area
107,1km²
Upstream area
2 562,7km²
Discharge
63,95m³/s
Mean elev.
598m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de la Diège504 km²
- Bassin de la Dordogne38 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 78.7 km²73.3% of basin
- 28.7 km²26.7% of basin
14 communes (GADM L5)Available for FRA, RWA
- Liginiac19.79 km²69% commune
- Sérandon14.24 km²41% commune
- Chirac-Bellevue13.14 km²63% commune
- Champagnac11.79 km²42% commune
- Saint-Pierre9.63 km²69% commune
- Valiergues9.47 km²74% commune
- Veyrières7.25 km²53% commune
- Sainte-Marie-Lapanouze6.48 km²95% commune
- Saint-Angel4.62 km²10% commune
- Roche-le-Peyroux3.83 km²53% commune
- Mestes3.54 km²30% commune
- Saint-Étienne-la-Geneste3.28 km²65% commune
- Saint-Julien-près-Bort0.28 km²1% commune
- Ussel0.01 km²0% commune
6 intersecting protected areas
Gorges de la Dordogne
IUCN Not ReportedSpecial Protection Area (Birds Directive)
42.19 km² overlap
Gorges de la Dordogne, de l'Auze et de la Sumène
IUCN Not ReportedSpecial Areas of Conservation (Habitats Directive)
4.78 km² overlap
Millevaches En Limousin
IUCN VRegional Nature Park
4.52 km² overlap
Vallée de la Dordogne sur l'ensemble de son cours et affluents
IUCN Not ReportedSpecial Areas of Conservation (Habitats Directive)
2.32 km² overlap
bois sur pente du verdier
IUCN IVLand acquired by a regional conservatory of natural areas
0.35 km² overlap
Lacs et rivières à loutres
IUCN Not ReportedSpecial Areas of Conservation (Habitats Directive)
0.11 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
2 842 distinct species · 90 817 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 36 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 Dordogne : 24 espèces reliées par 105 interactions GloBI sur 5 types (connectance 16.7%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 12 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°
9,9°C
Annual rain
825mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,08
Runoff
683mm/an
PET
894mm
AET
669mm
Mean slope
6,2°
Water table
347cm
Forest
79%
Crops
1%
Urban
0%
Protected
4%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)