National Park - Core Area · fra
Mercantour
- Area
- 679 km²
- IUCN cat.
- II
- Year
- 1979
Overview
- Designation
- National Park - Core Area
- IUCN category
- II · Parc national
Écosystèmes préservés + récréation grand public
- Established
- 1979
- Managing authority
- French Ministry in charge of the environment. In march 2012, name, acronym and address as follows : Ministère de l'Écologie, du Développement durable, des Transports et du Logement (MEDDTL) 92055 La Défense Cedex France. For national parks network,
Source : WDPA (UNEP-WCMC, World Database on Protected Areas).
Species present
11 452 distinct species · 440 746 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 19 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 Mercantour : 11 espèces + 8 bulles famille, 30 interactions GloBI documentées sur 4 types (connectance 17.5%, 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).
Hydrology9 basins · 3 lakes · 28 rivers
Hydrology metrics for this exact territory
Stream length here
88,4km
Lake surface here
0,40km²
Basins crossed
9
Max stream order
3
Max drainage
2 239km²
Discharge in basins
13,0m³/s
Mean precip.
1 064mm/an
Mean T°
6,4°C
Moisture idx
0,33
Max snow
37%
Mean runoff
594mm/an
Mean elev. (basins)
1 564m
Watersheds crossing here
- Bassin de la Tinéesub-area744 km²overlap239.31 km²35%
- Bassin de la Royasub-area673,9 km²overlap130.31 km²19%
- Bassin de l'Ubayesub-area1 002 km²overlap96.90 km²14%
- Bassin de la Vésubiesub-area386,3 km²overlap80.57 km²12%
- Bassin du Varsub-area415,9 km²overlap73.81 km²11%
- Bassin du Verdonsub-area2 238,8 km²overlap52.30 km²8%
- Bassin de Torrente Gesso della Vallettasub-area554,3 km²overlap3.89 km²1%
- Bassin de Stura di Demontesub-area614 km²overlap1.13 km²0%
- Bassin du Varsub-area429,9 km²overlap1.00 km²0%
Lakes (3, top by area)
Rivers / streams (28, ord ≥ 4)
- Vallon de Mollièresord 3len here14.03 km93%total15 km
- La Tinéeord 3len here9.87 km12%total80 km
- La Barlatteord 1len here6.56 km77%total9 km
- Le Bachelardord 2len here6.43 km42%total15 km
- La Bévéraord 3len here6.37 km18%total36 km
- Ruisseau de Valmasqueord 1len here4.30 km60%total7 km
- Le Rioord 1len here3.87 km100%total4 km
- Vallon de la Minièreord 1len here3.79 km54%total7 km
- Ruisseau de Vionèneord 1len here3.61 km45%total8 km
- La Gordolasqueord 3len here3.53 km25%total14 km
- Le Boréonord 2len here3.41 km30%total11 km
- Ravin du Vallonetord 1len here3.39 km47%total7 km
16 more river segmentssorted by Strahler order + length
- L'Ubayetteord 3len here3.27 km33%total10 km
- Ruisseau de Caïrosord 2len here2.96 km29%total10 km
- Ravin de Salse Morèneord 1len here2.19 km100%total2 km
- Le Bouchierord 1len here1.81 km34%total5 km
- Ruisseau de Durmiosesord 1len here1.72 km97%total2 km
- Ruisseau de l'Arcaneord 1len here1.21 km58%total2 km
- Le Varord 4len here1.11 km1%total147 km
- La Vésubieord 3len here1.10 km4%total29 km
- Ravin de la Moutièreord 1len here0.82 km25%total3 km
- Le Rioord 2len here0.78 km23%total3 km
- Ravin de Clignonord 1len here0.65 km76%total1 km
- Torrent de Gialorguesord 2len here0.53 km6%total9 km
- Trou des Corneillesord 1len here0.50 km13%total4 km
- Le Bourdousord 1len here0.31 km7%total4 km
- Torrent de Sestrièreord 1len here0.19 km5%total4 km
- Valon d'Antonyord 1len here0.12 km2%total6 km
Live spatial overlap (cached after first hit) · HydroBASINS lev08 × HydroLAKES × HydroRIVERS v10
Location
Fond cartographique : OpenFreeMap · © OpenStreetMap contributors · Géométrie : nos sources (GADM/HydroBASINS/HydroLAKES/HydroRIVERS/WDPA)
- Centroid
- 44.16674, 6.93029
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Species observed (Phase 2)
Listing species observed within this protected area requires the GBIF v2 partition × WDPA spatial overlay matview. Computing infrastructure pending.