HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #2080547030
Bassin de la Vézère
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 : Corrèze
Sub-basin area
227,9km²
Upstream area
996,9km²
Discharge
18,65m³/s
Mean elev.
347m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de la Vézère594 km²
- Bassin du Bradascou175 km²
1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 228.4 km²100.0% of basin
20 communes (GADM L5)Available for FRA, RWA
- Vigeois36.23 km²83% commune
- Lagraulière30.71 km²99% commune
- Allassac23.86 km²61% commune
- Perpezac-le-Noir22.24 km²89% commune
- Saint-Ybard17.39 km²58% commune
- Estivaux16.75 km²99% commune
- Voutezac13.12 km²59% commune
- Saint-Clément11.34 km²42% commune
- Seilhac10.86 km²42% commune
- Uzerche10.69 km²44% commune
- Saint-Viance10.28 km²61% commune
- Orgnac-sur-Vézère7.83 km²42% commune
- Saint-Jal7.50 km²28% commune
- Espartignac5.42 km²38% commune
- Chanteix2.39 km²12% commune
- Chamboulive0.78 km²2% commune
- Saint-Martin-Sepert0.45 km²3% commune
- Saint-Bonnet-l'Enfantier0.37 km²3% commune
- Saint-Pardoux-l'Ortigier0.16 km²1% commune
- Objat0.09 km²1% commune
3 intersecting protected areas
Vallée de la Vézère d'Uzerche à la limite départementale 19/24
IUCN Not ReportedSpecial Areas of Conservation (Habitats Directive)
8.99 km² overlap
bois sur pente de chatras
IUCN IVLand acquired by a regional conservatory of natural areas
0.10 km² overlap
marais du brezou
IUCN IVLand 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
2 023 distinct species · 39 403 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 Vézère : 33 espèces + 6 bulles famille, 85 interactions GloBI documentées sur 5 types (connectance 11.5%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). Les 6 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°
11,2°C
Annual rain
941mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,01
Runoff
596mm/an
PET
948mm
AET
706mm
Mean slope
4,8°
Water table
330cm
Forest
10%
Crops
2%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)