HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #2080576270
Bassin de Canal de Faubraguette
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 : Bouches-du-Rhône
Sub-basin area
175,5km²
Upstream area
175,5km²
Discharge
1,02m³/s
Mean elev.
75m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 175.8 km²100.0% of basin
11 communes (GADM L5)Available for FRA, RWA
- Arles35.04 km²5% commune
- Mouriès32.28 km²85% commune
- Maussane-les-Alpilles31.83 km²100% commune
- Paradou16.30 km²100% commune
- Fontvieille15.54 km²40% commune
- Les Baux-de-Provence13.10 km²73% commune
- Saint-Martin-de-Crau13.03 km²6% commune
- Saint-Rémy-de-Provence8.66 km²10% commune
- Aureille8.12 km²38% commune
- Eyguières1.00 km²1% commune
- Eygalières0.88 km²3% commune
10 intersecting protected areas
Alpilles
IUCN VRegional Nature Park
148.06 km² overlap
Les Alpilles
IUCN Not ReportedSpecial Protection Area (Birds Directive)
87.85 km² overlap
Les Alpilles
IUCN Not ReportedSpecial Areas of Conservation (Habitats Directive)
58.93 km² overlap
Marais de la vallée des Baux et marais d'Arles
IUCN Not ReportedSpecial Areas of Conservation (Habitats Directive)
41.57 km² overlap
Crau
IUCN Not ReportedSpecial Protection Area (Birds Directive)
14.38 km² overlap
Crau centrale - Crau sèche
IUCN Not ReportedSpecial Areas of Conservation (Habitats Directive)
4.59 km² overlap
L\'Ilon
IUCN IVRegional Nature Reserve
1.72 km² overlap
Marais de l’ilon
IUCN IVLand acquired by Conservatoire du Littoral (national seaside and lakeside conservancy)
1.71 km² overlap
La Caume
IUCN IVBiotope Protection Order
1.35 km² overlap
1 more protected areassorted by overlap area
Le Rhône aval
IUCN Not ReportedSpecial Areas of Conservation (Habitats Directive)
0.01 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
3 544 distinct species · 124 517 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 de Canal de Faubraguette : 25 espèces + 8 bulles famille, 51 interactions GloBI documentées sur 3 types (connectance 9.7%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). Les 8 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°
13,6°C
Annual rain
665mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,34
Runoff
183mm/an
PET
1 003mm
AET
562mm
Mean slope
3,4°
Water table
228cm
Forest
14%
Crops
32%
Urban
2%
Protected
81%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)