HydroLAKES lake · #33
Athabasca
Surface area
7 528,73km²
Avg depth
20,6m
Volume
155 400km³
Shoreline
2 540,4km
Administrative coverage
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- Division No. 18Saskatchewan · Canada5454.87 km²72.1% of lake
- Division No. 16Alberta · Canada2114.81 km²27.9% of lake
6 intersecting protected areas
Wilderness Park
258.70 km² overlap
Wildland Provincial Park
80.47 km² overlap
Wildland Provincial Park
0.41 km² overlap
Wood Buffalo National Park
IUCN Not ApplicableWorld Heritage Site (natural or mixed)
0.02 km² overlap
National Park
0.02 km² overlap
Ecological Reserve
0.02 km² overlap
Computed live · HydroLAKES × GADM × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
1 067 distinct species · 7 134 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 45 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 Athabasca : 33 espèces dont 1 patrimoniale (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 142 interactions GloBI sur 3 types (connectance 14.3%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 12 bulles taxonomiques (cascade genre/famille GloBI, ≥3 espèces).
Comparaison sur la connectance du réseau local complet vs distribution nationale (toutes les communes françaises).
Lake statistics (HydroLAKES)
Surface
7 528,73km²
Avg depth
20,6m
Volume
155 400,000km³
Watershed
291 489km²
Shoreline
2 540,4km
Shore dev. idx
8,26
Residence time
1 504days
Elevation
207m
HydroLAKES v1.0 (Messager et al. 2016) · 1.4M lacs ≥ 0.1 km² mondialement.