HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #2080579040
Bassin de la Bresque
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 : Var
Sub-basin area
268,1km²
Upstream area
268,2km²
Discharge
3,81m³/s
Mean elev.
460m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 268.6 km²100.0% of basin
18 communes (GADM L5)Available for FRA, RWA
- Aups65.00 km²100% commune
- Salernes38.19 km²98% commune
- Fox-Amphoux34.40 km²84% commune
- Entrecasteaux25.29 km²77% commune
- Tourtour22.13 km²76% commune
- Moissac-Bellevue20.10 km²97% commune
- Villecroze19.02 km²94% commune
- Régusse14.50 km²41% commune
- Sillans-la-Cascade12.77 km²63% commune
- Montmeyan8.68 km²22% commune
- Cotignac2.90 km²7% commune
- Flayosc1.95 km²4% commune
- Carcès1.77 km²5% commune
- Vérignon1.34 km²4% commune
- Le Thoronet0.25 km²1% commune
- Saint-Antonin-du-Var0.20 km²1% commune
- Tavernes0.10 km²0% commune
- Bauduen0.00 km²0% commune
3 intersecting protected areas
Verdon
IUCN VRegional Nature Park
112.22 km² overlap
Sources et tufs du Haut Var
IUCN Not ReportedSpecial Areas of Conservation (Habitats Directive)
32.69 km² overlap
Val d'Argens
IUCN Not ReportedSpecial Areas of Conservation (Habitats Directive)
9.94 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
5 752 distinct species · 159 142 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 29 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 Bresque : 15 espèces dont 1 patrimoniale (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 103 interactions GloBI sur 5 types (connectance 20.8%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 17 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°
12,1°C
Annual rain
779mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,12
Runoff
449mm/an
PET
892mm
AET
616mm
Mean slope
5,8°
Water table
294cm
Forest
69%
Crops
3%
Urban
0%
Protected
42%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)