HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #2080586850
Bassin de Ruisseau de Lescoure
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 : Hautes-Pyrénées
Sub-basin area
29km²
Upstream area
702,6km²
Discharge
9,35m³/s
Mean elev.
868m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Gave de Gavarnie491 km²
- Bassin de Gave de Cauterets182 km²
1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 29.1 km²100.0% of basin
15 communes (GADM L5)Available for FRA, RWA
- Vier-Bordes9.01 km²94% commune
- Beaucens3.86 km²10% commune
- Saint-Savin3.57 km²90% commune
- Ayros-Arbouix2.81 km²91% commune
- Artalens-Souin2.50 km²70% commune
- Lau-Balagnas2.14 km²71% commune
- Arcizans-Avant1.71 km²11% commune
- Préchac1.39 km²100% commune
- Adast1.05 km²99% commune
- Gazost0.39 km²1% commune
- Uz0.20 km²9% commune
- Argelès-Gazost0.19 km²6% commune
- Pierrefitte-Nestalas0.16 km²8% commune
- Saint-Pastous0.09 km²1% commune
- Boô-Silhen0.02 km²1% commune
3 intersecting protected areas
National Park - Buffer zone/Area of adhesion
19.72 km² overlap
Moun Né de Cauterets, pic de Cabaliros
IUCN Not ReportedSpecial Areas of Conservation (Habitats Directive)
0.64 km² overlap
Gaves de Pau et de Cauterets (et gorge de Cauterets)
IUCN Not ReportedSpecial Areas of Conservation (Habitats Directive)
0.51 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
2 588 distinct species · 16 366 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 35 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 Ruisseau de Lescoure : 28 espèces + 7 bulles famille, 76 interactions GloBI documentées sur 5 types (connectance 12.8%, 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°
9,1°C
Annual rain
952mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,09
Runoff
561mm/an
PET
848mm
AET
685mm
Mean slope
13,5°
Water table
273cm
Forest
92%
Crops
1%
Urban
0%
Protected
97%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)