HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #2080553970
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 : Corrèze, Lot
Sub-basin area
179km²
Upstream area
5 529,3km²
Discharge
144m³/s
Mean elev.
329m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de la Maronne825 km²
- Bassin de la Dordogne584 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 172.9 km²96.4% of basin
- 6.5 km²3.6% of basin
28 communes (GADM L5)Available for FRA, RWA
- Monceaux-sur-Dordogne35.22 km²96% commune
- Altillac17.43 km²68% commune
- Chenailler-Mascheix15.56 km²100% commune
- Bassignac-le-Bas12.78 km²100% commune
- Nonards11.12 km²100% commune
- Neuville9.92 km²66% commune
- Beaulieu-sur-Dordogne8.81 km²100% commune
- Brivezac8.23 km²100% commune
- Saint-Hilaire-Taurieux8.06 km²100% commune
- Astaillac7.37 km²100% commune
- Reygade6.52 km²47% commune
- Liourdres5.92 km²100% commune
- Ménoire5.86 km²91% commune
- La Chapelle-Saint-Géraud4.92 km²28% commune
- Tudeils3.88 km²42% commune
- Girac2.99 km²68% commune
- Sioniac2.98 km²28% commune
- Lostanges2.60 km²27% commune
- Puy-d'Arnac2.54 km²21% commune
- Gagnac-sur-Cère1.90 km²15% commune
- Argentat1.13 km²5% commune
- Puybrun0.76 km²18% commune
- Bilhac0.66 km²9% commune
- Le Pescher0.61 km²5% commune
- Albussac0.61 km²2% commune
- Tauriac0.51 km²6% commune
- Biars-sur-Cère0.33 km²9% commune
- Curemonte0.22 km²2% commune
9 intersecting protected areas
Rivière La Dordogne
IUCN IVBiotope Protection Order
3.27 km² overlap
Vallée de la Dordogne sur l'ensemble de son cours et affluents
IUCN Not ReportedSpecial Areas of Conservation (Habitats Directive)
3.10 km² overlap
Vallée de la Dordogne quercynoise
IUCN Not ReportedSpecial Areas of Conservation (Habitats Directive)
2.00 km² overlap
Cours Lotois De La Dordogne
IUCN IVBiotope Protection Order
0.36 km² overlap
Landes et pelouses serpentinicoles du sud corrèzien
IUCN Not ReportedSpecial Areas of Conservation (Habitats Directive)
0.35 km² overlap
Serpentines De Bettu
IUCN IVBiotope Protection Order
0.19 km² overlap
bois sur pente des raysses
IUCN IVLand acquired by a regional conservatory of natural areas
0.02 km² overlap
bois sur pente du gour
IUCN IVLand acquired by a regional conservatory of natural areas
0.01 km² overlap
bassin versant du palsou
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
3 479 distinct species · 109 848 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 44 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 : 30 espèces dont 2 patrimoniales (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 134 interactions GloBI sur 5 types (connectance 14.2%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 14 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°
11,6°C
Annual rain
835mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,13
Runoff
600mm/an
PET
966mm
AET
678mm
Mean slope
8,5°
Water table
419cm
Forest
66%
Crops
4%
Urban
0%
Protected
3%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)