Provincial Park · can
Bow Valley Provincial Park
- Area
- 33 km²
- IUCN cat.
- II
- Year
- 1959
Overview
- Designation
- Provincial Park
- IUCN category
- II · Parc national
Écosystèmes préservés + récréation grand public
- Established
- 1959
- Managing authority
- Parks Division, Alberta Forestry and Parks
Source : WDPA (UNEP-WCMC, World Database on Protected Areas).
Species present
1 408 distinct species · 92 920 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 32 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 Bow Valley Provincial Park : 21 espèces reliées par 76 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 14.4%, 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).
Hydrology2 basins · 5 lakes · 7 rivers
Hydrology metrics for this exact territory
Stream length here
21,6km
Lake surface here
3,30km²
Basins crossed
2
Max stream order
4
Max drainage
4 393km²
Discharge in basins
0,9m³/s
Mean precip.
623mm/an
Mean T°
-0,9°C
Moisture idx
0,03
Max snow
49%
Mean runoff
276mm/an
Mean elev. (basins)
1 983m
Watersheds crossing here
Lakes (5, top by area)
Rivers / streams (7, ord ≥ 4)
- Kananaskis Riverord 3len here15.07 km30%total51 km
- Bow Riverord 6len here2.47 km0%total878 km
- Porcupine Creekord 3len here2.24 km10%total22 km
- Jura Creekord 4len here1.30 km26%total5 km
- Wasootch Creekord 1len here0.30 km5%total7 km
- Stony Creekord 4len here0.21 km0%total486 km
- Heart Creekord 1len here≈ tangenttotal2 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
- 51.07207, -115.10073
- Open in maps
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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.