HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #2080572030
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 2 administrative regions : Bouches-du-Rhône, Vaucluse
Sub-basin area
288,8km²
Upstream area
14 276,2km²
Discharge
163,05m³/s
Mean elev.
71m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de la Durance1390 km²
- Bassin du Calavon994 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 203.1 km²70.2% of basin
- 86.3 km²29.8% of basin
25 communes (GADM L5)Available for FRA, RWA
- Saint-Rémy-de-Provence41.26 km²46% commune
- Avignon40.76 km²63% commune
- Eygalières33.41 km²97% commune
- Noves26.23 km²99% commune
- Châteaurenard19.44 km²56% commune
- Caumont-sur-Durance18.75 km²100% commune
- Saint-Andiol15.38 km²97% commune
- Cabannes14.55 km²94% commune
- Mollégès14.14 km²100% commune
- Orgon12.49 km²35% commune
- Le Thor9.34 km²26% commune
- Barbentane8.08 km²30% commune
- Rognonas7.98 km²94% commune
- Châteauneuf-de-Gadagne6.55 km²50% commune
- Cavaillon5.76 km²13% commune
- Morières-lès-Avignon5.02 km²48% commune
- Verquières4.31 km²100% commune
- Plan-d'Orgon3.55 km²24% commune
- Eyguières1.01 km²1% commune
- Aureille0.80 km²4% commune
- Eyragues0.27 km²1% commune
- Graveson0.17 km²1% commune
- L'Isle-sur-la-Sorgue0.11 km²0% commune
- Mouriès0.06 km²0% commune
- Sénas0.00 km²0% commune
7 intersecting protected areas
Alpilles
IUCN VRegional Nature Park
88.49 km² overlap
Les Alpilles
IUCN Not ReportedSpecial Protection Area (Birds Directive)
51.38 km² overlap
Les Alpilles
IUCN Not ReportedSpecial Areas of Conservation (Habitats Directive)
27.97 km² overlap
La Durance
IUCN Not ReportedSpecial Protection Area (Birds Directive)
16.51 km² overlap
La Durance
IUCN Not ReportedSpecial Areas of Conservation (Habitats Directive)
16.51 km² overlap
Luberon
IUCN VRegional Nature Park
5.70 km² overlap
La Caume
IUCN IVBiotope Protection Order
1.90 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
4 341 distinct species · 118 186 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 43 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 : 39 espèces + 4 bulles famille, 66 interactions GloBI documentées sur 4 types (connectance 7.3%, 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°
13,5°C
Annual rain
675mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,33
Runoff
231mm/an
PET
1 007mm
AET
570mm
Mean slope
1,7°
Water table
130cm
Forest
20%
Crops
28%
Urban
29%
Protected
33%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)