HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #2080576220
Bassin du Rhône
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, Gard
Sub-basin area
124,7km²
Upstream area
95 379,6km²
Discharge
1 725,47m³/s
Mean elev.
25m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de la Bagnolette190 km²
- Bassin du Grand Valat82 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 80.5 km²64.4% of basin
- 44.4 km²35.6% of basin
8 communes (GADM L5)Available for FRA, RWA
- Beaucaire39.51 km²46% commune
- Arles27.22 km²4% commune
- Tarascon26.73 km²36% commune
- Fontvieille23.37 km²60% commune
- Fourques4.75 km²13% commune
- Les Baux-de-Provence1.77 km²10% commune
- Saint-Étienne-du-Grès1.40 km²5% commune
- Jonquières-Saint-Vincent0.16 km²1% commune
6 intersecting protected areas
Alpilles
IUCN VRegional Nature Park
35.41 km² overlap
Les Alpilles
IUCN Not ReportedSpecial Protection Area (Birds Directive)
22.41 km² overlap
Les Alpilles
IUCN Not ReportedSpecial Areas of Conservation (Habitats Directive)
15.02 km² overlap
Le Rhône aval
IUCN Not ReportedSpecial Areas of Conservation (Habitats Directive)
6.47 km² overlap
Le Petit Rhône
IUCN Not ReportedSpecial Areas of Conservation (Habitats Directive)
0.25 km² overlap
beaucaire - ile sous merarde
IUCN IVLand acquired by a regional conservatory of natural areas
0.06 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
2 389 distinct species · 63 851 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 du Rhône : 26 espèces dont 1 patrimoniale (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) + 7 bulles famille, 61 interactions GloBI documentées sur 2 types (connectance 11.6%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). Les 7 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°
13,9°C
Annual rain
683mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,33
Runoff
254mm/an
PET
1 017mm
AET
576mm
Mean slope
1,3°
Water table
112cm
Forest
9%
Crops
37%
Urban
13%
Protected
28%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)