HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #2080572960
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
1,3km²
Upstream area
8 793,7km²
Discharge
109,01m³/s
Mean elev.
320m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de l'Asse675 km²
- Bassin du Rancure443 km²
1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 1.3 km²100.0% of basin
2 communes (GADM L5)Available for FRA, RWA
- Valensole0.74 km²1% commune
- Villeneuve0.61 km²2% commune
4 intersecting protected areas
La Durance
IUCN Not ReportedSpecial Protection Area (Birds Directive)
1.13 km² overlap
La Durance
IUCN Not ReportedSpecial Areas of Conservation (Habitats Directive)
0.91 km² overlap
Luberon
IUCN VRegional Nature Park
0.71 km² overlap
Verdon
IUCN VRegional Nature Park
0.64 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
1 330 distinct species · 11 274 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 40 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 : 33 espèces dont 1 patrimoniale (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 80 interactions GloBI sur 5 types (connectance 9.8%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 8 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°
12,4°C
Annual rain
723mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,24
Runoff
351mm/an
PET
946mm
AET
611mm
Mean slope
0,5°
Water table
5cm
Forest
0%
Crops
26%
Urban
0%
Protected
100%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)