HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #2080572880
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 3 administrative regions : Bouches-du-Rhône, Gard, Vaucluse
Sub-basin area
110,3km²
Upstream area
92 990km²
Discharge
1 686,93m³/s
Mean elev.
53m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de la Durance289 km²
- Bassin du Rhône30 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 73.0 km²66.0% of basin
- 37.2 km²33.7% of basin
- 0.4 km²0.3% of basin
14 communes (GADM L5)Available for FRA, RWA
- Aramon31.12 km²100% commune
- Boulbon17.92 km²93% commune
- Barbentane14.42 km²53% commune
- Théziers11.45 km²99% commune
- Domazan10.60 km²91% commune
- Vallabrègues6.71 km²47% commune
- Estézargues5.89 km²50% commune
- Saint-Pierre-de-Mézoargues4.43 km²100% commune
- Saze3.52 km²27% commune
- Les Angles2.78 km²17% commune
- Montfrin0.75 km²5% commune
- Tarascon0.47 km²1% commune
- Avignon0.35 km²1% commune
- Fournès0.15 km²1% commune
4 intersecting protected areas
Le Rhône aval
IUCN Not ReportedSpecial Areas of Conservation (Habitats Directive)
8.52 km² overlap
La Durance
IUCN Not ReportedSpecial Protection Area (Birds Directive)
0.32 km² overlap
La Durance
IUCN Not ReportedSpecial Areas of Conservation (Habitats Directive)
0.32 km² overlap
lone d\'aramon
IUCN IVLand acquired by a regional conservatory of natural areas
0.22 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
2 360 distinct species · 35 552 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 38 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 : 34 espèces dont 1 patrimoniale (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) + 4 bulles famille, 55 interactions GloBI documentées sur 5 types (connectance 7.8%, 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°
13,7°C
Annual rain
708mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,30
Runoff
288mm/an
PET
1 016mm
AET
597mm
Mean slope
2,7°
Water table
228cm
Forest
10%
Crops
30%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)