HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #2080567530
Bassin de la Durance
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 : Alpes-de-Haute-Provence
Sub-basin area
11,4km²
Upstream area
6 303km²
Discharge
82,93m³/s
Mean elev.
595m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin du Buëch1465 km²
- Bassin de la Durance1274 km²
1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 11.4 km²100.0% of basin
2 communes (GADM L5)Available for FRA, RWA
- Sisteron9.20 km²18% commune
- Entrepierres2.24 km²5% commune
2 intersecting protected areas
La Durance
IUCN Not ReportedSpecial Protection Area (Birds Directive)
1.17 km² overlap
La Durance
IUCN Not ReportedSpecial Areas of Conservation (Habitats Directive)
1.17 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
3 588 distinct species · 59 996 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 33 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 Durance : 22 espèces dont 1 patrimoniale (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 140 interactions GloBI sur 5 types (connectance 22.2%, 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°
10,7°C
Annual rain
791mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,13
Runoff
372mm/an
PET
914mm
AET
644mm
Mean slope
13,7°
Water table
627cm
Forest
30%
Crops
13%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)