HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #2080559130
Bassin de la Selves
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
215km²
Upstream area
3 279,6km²
Discharge
51,12m³/s
Mean elev.
860m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de la Truyère981 km²
- Bassin du Goul310 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 215.1 km²99.8% of basin
- 0.4 km²0.2% of basin
16 communes (GADM L5)Available for FRA, RWA
- Laguiole60.66 km²95% commune
- Saint-Amans-des-Cots25.94 km²62% commune
- Montpeyroux24.94 km²40% commune
- Huparlac16.10 km²66% commune
- Soulages-Bonneval15.83 km²100% commune
- Entraygues-sur-Truyère15.70 km²51% commune
- Florentin-la-Capelle15.60 km²43% commune
- Campouriez12.64 km²69% commune
- Cassuéjouls10.92 km²100% commune
- La Terrisse10.63 km²38% commune
- Curières4.36 km²12% commune
- Le Fel1.05 km²4% commune
- Alpuech0.69 km²5% commune
- Saint-Urcize0.33 km²1% commune
- La Trinitat0.08 km²0% commune
- Le Nayrac0.02 km²0% commune
5 intersecting protected areas
Aubrac
IUCN VRegional Nature Park
214.47 km² overlap
Gorges de la Truyère
IUCN Not ReportedSpecial Protection Area (Birds Directive)
12.43 km² overlap
Plateau central de l'Aubrac aveyronnais
IUCN Not ReportedSpecial Areas of Conservation (Habitats Directive)
5.85 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)
0.56 km² overlap
Vergne Noire (De La)
IUCN IVForest Managed Biological Reserve
0.13 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
2 299 distinct species · 37 501 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 35 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 Selves : 31 espèces + 4 bulles famille, 64 interactions GloBI documentées sur 4 types (connectance 10.8%, 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°
9,3°C
Annual rain
809mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,07
Runoff
536mm/an
PET
878mm
AET
653mm
Mean slope
7,2°
Water table
373cm
Forest
23%
Crops
5%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)