HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #2080574960
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 : Alpes-de-Haute-Provence, Var, Vaucluse
Sub-basin area
244,9km²
Upstream area
9 413,5km²
Discharge
114,09m³/s
Mean elev.
417m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 226.3 km²92.2% of basin
- 15.2 km²6.2% of basin
- 3.9 km²1.6% of basin
15 communes (GADM L5)Available for FRA, RWA
- Valensole57.79 km²45% commune
- Manosque51.01 km²90% commune
- Gréoux-les-Bains29.75 km²43% commune
- Pierrevert27.94 km²100% commune
- Sainte-Tulle16.90 km²100% commune
- Montfuron15.80 km²85% commune
- Corbières13.74 km²74% commune
- Volx10.18 km²55% commune
- La Bastide-des-Jourdans9.61 km²34% commune
- Beaumont-de-Pertuis5.59 km²10% commune
- Vinon-sur-Verdon3.86 km²11% commune
- Villemus1.37 km²14% commune
- Villeneuve1.11 km²4% commune
- Saint-Martin-les-Eaux0.75 km²8% commune
- Saint-Maime0.00 km²0% commune
10 intersecting protected areas
Luberon
IUCN VRegional Nature Park
154.00 km² overlap
Verdon
IUCN VRegional Nature Park
91.41 km² overlap
Protected perimeter around a national nature reserve
86.72 km² overlap
La Durance
IUCN Not ReportedSpecial Protection Area (Birds Directive)
33.70 km² overlap
Valensole
IUCN Not ReportedSpecial Areas of Conservation (Habitats Directive)
21.92 km² overlap
Plateau de Valensole
IUCN Not ReportedSpecial Protection Area (Birds Directive)
21.92 km² overlap
La Durance
IUCN Not ReportedSpecial Areas of Conservation (Habitats Directive)
17.00 km² overlap
Adrets de Montjustin - les Craux - rochers et crêtes de Volx
IUCN Not ReportedSpecial Areas of Conservation (Habitats Directive)
7.42 km² overlap
Luberon Oriental
IUCN IVBiotope Protection Order
3.02 km² overlap
1 more protected areassorted by overlap area
Massif du Luberon
IUCN Not ReportedSpecial Areas of Conservation (Habitats Directive)
1.38 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
6 076 distinct species · 370 212 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 39 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 : 12 espèces dont 1 patrimoniale (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 267 interactions GloBI sur 6 types (connectance 11.7%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 56 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°
11,9°C
Annual rain
736mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,20
Runoff
344mm/an
PET
921mm
AET
613mm
Mean slope
5,2°
Water table
295cm
Forest
34%
Crops
26%
Urban
12%
Protected
100%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)