HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #2080558280
Bassin du Goul
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 : Aveyron, Cantal
Sub-basin area
309,9km²
Upstream area
310km²
Discharge
5,82m³/s
Mean elev.
716m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 223.9 km²72.1% of basin
- 86.7 km²27.9% of basin
33 communes (GADM L5)Available for FRA, RWA
- Taussac33.72 km²86% commune
- Ladinhac26.12 km²98% commune
- Saint-Hippolyte23.21 km²64% commune
- Teissières-lès-Bouliès19.54 km²100% commune
- Labrousse19.06 km²95% commune
- Carlat18.38 km²89% commune
- Raulhac16.97 km²98% commune
- Cros-de-Ronesque16.07 km²100% commune
- Saint-Clément15.02 km²88% commune
- Murols13.98 km²100% commune
- Leucamp13.80 km²100% commune
- Vezels-Roussy12.75 km²100% commune
- Badailhac12.65 km²100% commune
- Lacroix-Barrez10.52 km²38% commune
- Lapeyrugue8.42 km²100% commune
- Saint-Étienne-de-Carlat8.27 km²78% commune
- Prunet7.65 km²27% commune
- Pailherols7.27 km²28% commune
- Jou-sous-Monjou6.28 km²100% commune
- Lafeuillade-en-Vézie5.37 km²33% commune
- Montsalvy5.04 km²24% commune
- Le Fel4.52 km²18% commune
- Vic-sur-Cère2.52 km²9% commune
- Lacapelle-del-Fraisse0.95 km²6% commune
- Labesserette0.86 km²6% commune
- Polminhac0.72 km²3% commune
- Mur-de-Barrez0.44 km²2% commune
- Entraygues-sur-Truyère0.25 km²1% commune
- Vézac0.11 km²1% commune
- Malbo0.09 km²0% commune
- Campouriez0.05 km²0% commune
- Arpajon-sur-Cère0.01 km²0% commune
- Brommat0.00 km²0% commune
8 intersecting protected areas
Volcans D\'Auvergne
IUCN VRegional Nature Park
31.16 km² overlap
Site des Grivaldes
IUCN Not ReportedSpecial Areas of Conservation (Habitats Directive)
5.10 km² overlap
Côteaux de Raulhac et Cros de Ronesque
IUCN Not ReportedSpecial Areas of Conservation (Habitats Directive)
2.57 km² overlap
Site de Teissières
IUCN Not ReportedSpecial Areas of Conservation (Habitats Directive)
2.13 km² overlap
Gorges de la Truyère
IUCN Not ReportedSpecial Protection Area (Birds Directive)
1.68 km² overlap
Haute vallée du Lot entre Espalion et Saint-Laurent-d'Olt et gorges de la Truyère, basse vallée du Lot et le Goul
IUCN Not ReportedSpecial Areas of Conservation (Habitats Directive)
0.65 km² overlap
Aubrac
IUCN VRegional Nature Park
0.37 km² overlap
Massif cantalien
IUCN Not ReportedSpecial Areas of Conservation (Habitats Directive)
0.35 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
2 148 distinct species · 62 482 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 45 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 du Goul : 41 espèces + 4 bulles famille, 91 interactions GloBI documentées sur 7 types (connectance 9.2%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). Les 4 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°
9,9°C
Annual rain
796mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,12
Runoff
593mm/an
PET
903mm
AET
654mm
Mean slope
10,9°
Water table
497cm
Forest
50%
Crops
1%
Urban
0%
Protected
10%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)