Regional Nature Park · fra
Préalpes D’Azur
- Area
- 968 km²
- IUCN cat.
- V
- Year
- 2012
Overview
- Designation
- Regional Nature Park
- IUCN category
- V · Paysage protégé
Paysage façonné par l'humain digne de conservation
- Established
- 2012
- 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 regional parks network,
Source : WDPA (UNEP-WCMC, World Database on Protected Areas).
Species present
7 378 distinct species · 530 060 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 25 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 Préalpes D’Azur : 12 espèces reliées par 131 interactions GloBI sur 5 types (connectance 34.7%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 16 bulles taxonomiques (cascade genre/famille GloBI, ≥3 espèces).
Comparaison sur la connectance du réseau local complet vs distribution nationale (toutes les communes françaises).
Hydrology7 basins · 1 lakes · 32 rivers
Hydrology metrics for this exact territory
Stream length here
242,7km
Lake surface here
0,22km²
Basins crossed
7
Max stream order
4
Max drainage
2 825km²
Discharge in basins
66,8m³/s
Mean precip.
869mm/an
Mean T°
11,1°C
Moisture idx
0,04
Max snow
12%
Mean runoff
599mm/an
Mean elev. (basins)
715m
Watersheds crossing here
- Bassin du Loupsub-area1 254,8 km²overlap441.38 km²46%
- Bassin de l'Estéronsub-area450,1 km²overlap382.60 km²40%
- Bassin du Verdonsub-area2 238,8 km²overlap78.85 km²8%
- Bassin du Varsub-area124,2 km²overlap31.87 km²3%
- Bassin du Varsub-area429,9 km²overlap19.57 km²2%
- Bassin du Varsub-area23 km²overlap8.23 km²1%
- Bassin du Varsub-area9,6 km²overlap5.47 km²1%
Lakes (1, top by area)
Rivers / streams (32, ord ≥ 4)
- L'Estéronord 3len here63.38 km92%total69 km
- Le Loupord 3len here32.86 km63%total52 km
- La Laneord 1len here14.07 km100%total14 km
- Vallon de Nansord 1len here12.94 km100%total13 km
- Le Bouyonord 1len here10.92 km100%total11 km
- La Cagneord 2len here10.33 km42%total24 km
- Canal de la Siagneord 2len here9.46 km67%total14 km
- Le Rieu Tortord 1len here7.94 km75%total11 km
- La Fayeord 2len here6.38 km100%total6 km
- Vallon de Saint-Antoninord 2len here5.96 km100%total6 km
- La Siagneord 3len here5.40 km29%total19 km
- Riou de Cuebrisord 3len here4.76 km100%total5 km
20 more river segmentssorted by Strahler order + length
- Le Riouord 1len here4.71 km87%total5 km
- Vallon de Lacombeord 1len here4.49 km100%total4 km
- Peyronord 1len here4.39 km100%total4 km
- Riolanord 2len here4.32 km74%total6 km
- Siagnole d'Escragnollesord 1len here3.73 km54%total7 km
- Vallon de la Tuilièreord 2len here3.68 km100%total4 km
- L'Artubyord 3len here3.67 km7%total51 km
- Riou de Gourdonord 2len here3.58 km100%total4 km
- Riu de Barord 1len here3.45 km100%total3 km
- Ruisseau du Vallon des Gourgsord 3len here3.20 km38%total8 km
- Torrent de La Sagneord 1len here3.11 km83%total4 km
- Le Varord 4len here3.01 km2%total147 km
- Aqueduc du Loupord 1len here2.89 km100%total3 km
- Le Malvanord 1len here2.51 km19%total13 km
- Vallon de Saint-Christopheord 1len here1.88 km36%total5 km
- La Ganièreord 1len here1.75 km100%total2 km
- La Pascaressaord 1len here1.62 km100%total2 km
- Vallon de la Terrasseord 1len here1.17 km100%total1 km
- Ruisseau de Besseugesord 2len here1.11 km69%total2 km
- La Chalvagneord 2len here0.04 km1%total7 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
- 43.78340, 6.91492
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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.