Canadian Rocky Mountain Parks
IUCN Not ApplicableWorld Heritage Site (natural or mixed) · 1984
23 621 km²
Commune · CAN
Columbia-Shuswap A
Canada
DfcCold, no dry season, cold summer(48 %)
Species observed
5 200
Observations
318 710
Area
13 844,1km²
Ecological tissue
Sample of 34 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).
RègnesAnimalPlanteChampignonBacterie
RelationsPredationParasitismeSymbiosePollinisation
StatutEn dangerVulnérableProtégéeEndémique
Indicateurs du tissu écologique
Tissu écologique de Columbia-Shuswap A : 25 espèces reliées par 78 interactions GloBI sur 5 types (connectance 13.9%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 9 bulles taxonomiques (cascade genre/famille GloBI, ≥3 espèces).
Espèces affichées
34
Interactions affichées
78
Connectance
0.139
Patrimoniales
0
Plus dense que (national)0 %(top 100%)
Comparaison sur la connectance du réseau local complet vs distribution nationale (toutes les communes françaises).
Species present
5 200 distinct species · 318 710 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Climate
Mean T°
-1,0°C
Annual rain
1 544mm
Warmest m°
17,1°C
Coldest m°
-17,0°C
Elevation: 1 811 m on average (min 744 m, max 3 325 m)
Bioclimatic details19 BIO + Köppen full + altitude statsExpert
Annual mean temp.
-1,0°C
Annual rain
1 544mm
Warmest month
17,1°C
Coldest month
-17,0°C
Mean alt.
1 811m
Min
744m
Max
3 325m
Std. dev.
521m
Köppen-Geiger (dominant)
DfcCold, no dry season, cold summer(48 %)Cold
CHELSA BIO 1-19 v2.1 · ETOPO DEM 60s · Köppen-Geiger 1991-2020 (Beck et al. 2018)
Hydrology42 basins · 50 lakes · 100 rivers
Hydrology metrics for this exact territory
Stream length here
2 810,9km
Lake surface here
314,43km²
Basins crossed
42
Max stream order
5
Max drainage
23 182km²
Discharge in basins
3 397,6m³/s
Mean precip.
799mm/an
Mean T°
-0,6°C
Moisture idx
0,25
Max snow
70%
Mean runoff
976mm/an
Mean elev. (basins)
1 798m
Watersheds crossing here
- Bassin de Kicking Horse Riversub-area1 815,3 km²overlap1808.01 km²13%
- Bassin de Chatter Creeksub-area1 632,2 km²overlap1619.86 km²12%
- Bassin de Spillimacheen Riversub-area1 456,3 km²overlap1399.76 km²10%
- Bassin de Beaver Riversub-area1 163,1 km²overlap1160.42 km²8%
- Bassin de Wood Riversub-area972,2 km²overlap969.18 km²7%
- Bassin de Columbia Riversub-area815,1 km²overlap786.02 km²6%
- Bassin de Blaeberry Riversub-area745,4 km²overlap739.75 km²5%
- Bassin de Sullivan Riversub-area632,5 km²overlap632.19 km²5%
- Bassin de Bachelor Creeksub-area566,3 km²overlap566.18 km²4%
33 more basinssorted by overlap
- Bassin de Columbia Riversub-area428,1 km²overlap429.78 km²3%
- Bassin de Bluewater Creeksub-area392,4 km²overlap393.90 km²3%
- Bassin de Waitabit Creeksub-area352,3 km²overlap351.45 km²3%
- Bassin de Canoe Riversub-area416,7 km²overlap316.41 km²2%
- Bassin de Austerity Creeksub-area276,3 km²overlap271.11 km²2%
- Bassin de Cummins Riversub-area262,6 km²overlap263.60 km²2%
- Basin #27670sub-area261,1 km²overlap262.14 km²2%
- Bassin de Columbia Riversub-area249,1 km²overlap250.00 km²2%
- Bassin de Quartz Creeksub-area238,6 km²overlap239.50 km²2%
- Bassin de Incomappleux Riversub-area1 251,1 km²overlap238.02 km²2%
- Bassin de Illecillewaet Riversub-area1 213,4 km²overlap224.26 km²2%
- Bassin de Columbia Riversub-area211,7 km²overlap211.08 km²2%
- Bassin de Columbia Riversub-area187,1 km²overlap186.03 km²1%
- Bassin de Columbia Riversub-area187,6 km²overlap178.53 km²1%
- Bassin de Columbia Riversub-area114,4 km²overlap114.79 km²1%
- Bassin de Kootenay Riversub-area2 705,4 km²overlap91.48 km²1%
- Bassin de Marl Creeksub-area36,1 km²overlap36.24 km²0%
- Bassin de Duncan Riversub-area1 533,4 km²overlap27.63 km²0%
- Bassin de Athabasca Riversub-area812,8 km²overlap25.59 km²0%
- Bassin de Athabasca Riversub-area2 366,7 km²overlap11.64 km²0%
- Bassin de Bow Riversub-area2 208,5 km²overlap9.57 km²0%
- Bassin de Goldstream Riversub-area954,4 km²overlap8.21 km²0%
- Bassin de Howse Riversub-area421,6 km²overlap4.29 km²0%
- Bassin de Columbia Riversub-area2 297,3 km²overlap3.51 km²0%
- Bassin de Mistaya Riversub-area309,5 km²overlap3.11 km²0%
- Bassin de Bugaboo Creeksub-area368,6 km²overlap2.13 km²0%
- Bassin de Canoe Riversub-area633,4 km²overlap1.95 km²0%
- Bassin de Alexandra Riversub-area296,9 km²overlap1.87 km²0%
- Bassin de Gold Riversub-area1,7 km²overlap1.69 km²0%
- Bassin de Downie Creeksub-area656 km²overlap1.51 km²0%
- Bassin de Canoe Riversub-area83 km²overlap0.99 km²0%
- Bassin de Sunwapta Riversub-area742,9 km²overlap0.53 km²0%
- Bassin de Columbia Riversub-area678,3 km²overlap0.11 km²0%
Lakes (50, top by area)
- Kinbasketarea419,1 km²avg depth59.6 m
- Fortress Lakearea8,7 km²avg depth32.3 m
- Lake #96817area2 km²avg depth5.1 m
- Lake #96075area1,9 km²avg depth7.0 m
- Lake #96336area1,6 km²avg depth8.5 m
- Lake #96489area1,3 km²avg depth5.0 m
- Lake #95699area1,1 km²avg depth3.5 m
- Emerald Lakearea1,1 km²avg depth10.5 m
- Lake #96785area1 km²avg depth1.6 m
41 more lakes
- Lac 940148area0,9 km²avg depth2.7 m
- Lac 936572area0,9 km²avg depth2.7 m
- Lac 927638area0,9 km²avg depth11.0 m
- Lac 930908area0,8 km²avg depth12.1 m
- Lac 941293area0,8 km²avg depth1.8 m
- Lac 941424area0,7 km²avg depth2.4 m
- Lac 937402area0,6 km²avg depth5.9 m
- Lac 941149area0,6 km²avg depth6.2 m
- Lac 935635area0,6 km²avg depth2.2 m
- Lac 906210area0,6 km²avg depth10.8 m
- Lac 937418area0,6 km²avg depth4.9 m
- Lac 920079area0,6 km²avg depth9.5 m
- Lac 939530area0,6 km²avg depth3.5 m
- Lac 916298area0,6 km²avg depth6.6 m
- Lac 940071area0,6 km²avg depth2.1 m
- Lac 939462area0,5 km²avg depth2.2 m
- Lac 936414area0,5 km²avg depth4.6 m
- Lac 937608area0,5 km²avg depth2.9 m
- Lac 923657area0,4 km²avg depth6.3 m
- Lac 935022area0,4 km²avg depth1.8 m
- Lac 906411area0,4 km²avg depth11.9 m
- Lac 937863area0,4 km²avg depth3.5 m
- Lac 936864area0,4 km²avg depth3.4 m
- Lac 941277area0,4 km²avg depth4.4 m
- Lac 936022area0,4 km²avg depth2.0 m
- Lac 936101area0,4 km²avg depth4.3 m
- Lac 939375area0,4 km²avg depth4.2 m
- Lac 927425area0,4 km²avg depth8.4 m
- Lac 907830area0,3 km²avg depth7.9 m
- Lac 936882area0,3 km²avg depth2.2 m
- Lac 935238area0,3 km²avg depth5.0 m
- Lac 938350area0,3 km²avg depth1.1 m
- Lac 934482area0,3 km²avg depth5.6 m
- Lac 930298area0,3 km²avg depth8.5 m
- Lac 925627area0,3 km²avg depth6.9 m
- Lac 940855area0,3 km²avg depth1.5 m
- Lac 938001area0,3 km²avg depth1.3 m
- Lac 939751area0,3 km²avg depth3.5 m
- Lac 939722area0,3 km²avg depth4.6 m
- Lac 939500area0,3 km²avg depth6.2 m
- Lac 935767area0,3 km²avg depth4.5 m
Rivers / streams (100, ord ≥ 4)
- Columbia Riverord 8len here355.72 km12%total2971 km
- Beaver Riverord 4len here137.58 km100%total137 km
- Wood Riverord 3len here128.24 km100%total128 km
- Spillimacheen Riverord 4len here112.33 km100%total112 km
- Blaeberry Riverord 5len here104.68 km100%total105 km
- Kicking Horse Riverord 4len here94.76 km96%total98 km
- Bluewater Creekord 3len here84.39 km100%total84 km
- Bobbie Burns Creekord 5len here72.07 km96%total75 km
- Waitabit Creekord 3len here68.39 km100%total68 km
- Cummins Riverord 3len here63.71 km100%total64 km
- Bachelor Creekord 4len here56.57 km95%total60 km
- Mountain Creekord 4len here54.47 km66%total82 km
88 more river segmentssorted by Strahler order + length
- Gold Riverord 5len here48.48 km100%total48 km
- Vowell Creekord 4len here47.42 km100%total47 km
- Quartz Creekord 6len here47.29 km21%total227 km
- Canoe Riverord 5len here41.17 km15%total280 km
- Clemenceau Creekord 2len here40.94 km100%total41 km
- Amiskwi Riverord 2len here39.85 km100%total40 km
- Ventego Creekord 2len here37.82 km100%total38 km
- Chatter Creekord 2len here34.59 km97%total36 km
- Incomappleux Riverord 4len here33.77 km33%total102 km
- Canyon Creekord 6len here31.72 km8%total374 km
- Palmer Creekord 4len here31.28 km60%total52 km
- Sullivan Riverord 3len here30.21 km100%total30 km
- Lyell Creekord 3len here27.81 km100%total28 km
- Otterhead Riverord 4len here27.60 km100%total28 km
- Valenciennes Riverord 3len here27.32 km100%total27 km
- Illecillewaet Riverord 6len here26.62 km26%total103 km
- Ottertail Riverord 3len here25.20 km100%total25 km
- Beaverfoot Riverord 2len here24.54 km100%total25 km
- Goodfellow Creekord 4len here23.38 km81%total29 km
- Caribou Creekord 7len here21.88 km20%total109 km
- Casualty Creekord 2len here21.53 km100%total21 km
- Grizzly Creekord 3len here20.14 km39%total52 km
- Glenogle Creekord 2len here19.31 km100%total19 km
- Bush Riverord 3len here19.27 km100%total19 km
- Cupola Creekord 3len here19.02 km100%total19 km
- Split Creekord 2len here17.54 km50%total35 km
- Yoho Riverord 2len here17.53 km100%total18 km
- Ursus Creekord 3len here17.29 km100%total17 km
- Prattle Creekord 3len here17.12 km100%total17 km
- Van Horne Brookord 3len here16.86 km100%total17 km
- Cirque Creekord 2len here16.30 km100%total16 km
- Succour Creekord 2len here15.96 km100%total16 km
- Dainard Creekord 1len here15.74 km100%total16 km
- Mons Creekord 3len here15.51 km100%total15 km
- Benedict Creekord 2len here14.75 km81%total18 km
- Crystalline Creekord 3len here14.61 km100%total15 km
- Malachite Creekord 2len here14.54 km100%total15 km
- Holt Creekord 2len here14.14 km100%total14 km
- East Grizzly Creekord 2len here13.95 km100%total14 km
- Emerald Riverord 2len here13.76 km100%total14 km
- Marl Creekord 1len here13.59 km100%total14 km
- McMurdo Creekord 2len here13.26 km100%total13 km
- Clearwater Creekord 3len here13.03 km20%total65 km
- Lang Creekord 3len here12.90 km74%total17 km
- Twelve Mile Creekord 2len here12.81 km45%total29 km
- Flat Creekord 7len here12.60 km9%total137 km
- Collie Creekord 2len here12.42 km100%total12 km
- Game Creekord 2len here12.29 km39%total32 km
- Double Eddy Creekord 1len here11.82 km100%total12 km
- Mollison Creekord 2len here11.78 km100%total12 km
- McArthur Creekord 3len here11.76 km100%total12 km
- Carbonate Creekord 2len here11.65 km100%total12 km
- Hobo Creekord 1len here11.34 km100%total11 km
- Donald Creekord 5len here11.29 km76%total15 km
- Redburn Creekord 2len here11.13 km100%total11 km
- Austerity Creekord 2len here11.06 km100%total11 km
- Chisel Creekord 2len here11.00 km100%total11 km
- Gorman Creekord 1len here10.84 km100%total11 km
- Rice Brookord 2len here10.58 km100%total11 km
- Porcupine Creekord 3len here10.53 km19%total54 km
- Cataract Brookord 2len here10.50 km100%total10 km
- Oldman Creekord 2len here10.39 km76%total14 km
- Tsar Creekord 1len here10.18 km100%total10 km
- Hospital Creekord 2len here9.85 km82%total12 km
- Smith Creekord 5len here9.64 km6%total169 km
- Cougar Brookord 3len here9.42 km100%total9 km
- Birchlands Creekord 1len here9.09 km100%total9 km
- Schlichting Creekord 1len here9.08 km100%total9 km
- Baird Brookord 2len here8.94 km100%total9 km
- Kiwetinok Riverord 1len here8.81 km100%total9 km
- Martin Creekord 5len here8.77 km13%total69 km
- Wildcat Creekord 6len here8.64 km9%total101 km
- Spinster Creekord 4len here8.59 km100%total9 km
- Swan Creekord 2len here8.54 km100%total9 km
- Mummery Creekord 3len here8.45 km100%total8 km
- Bostock Creekord 2len here8.31 km100%total8 km
- Connaught Creekord 2len here8.28 km100%total8 km
- Carrol Creekord 2len here7.99 km54%total15 km
- Horse Creekord 6len here7.93 km5%total155 km
- Slick Creekord 3len here7.89 km67%total12 km
- Copper Creekord 7len here7.82 km7%total120 km
- Mitre Creekord 2len here7.48 km100%total7 km
- Fraser Creekord 5len here7.26 km69%total10 km
- Rampart Creekord 2len here7.21 km37%total19 km
- South Rice Brookord 1len here7.21 km100%total7 km
- Otto Creekord 1len here6.90 km100%total7 km
- Willowbank Creekord 2len here6.70 km100%total7 km
- Loop Brookord 2len here6.69 km100%total7 km
Live spatial overlap (cached after first hit) · HydroBASINS lev08 × HydroLAKES × HydroRIVERS v10
Protected areas22
IUCN II · 8IUCN IV · 6IUCN Not Applicable · 2IUCN Ib · 2IUCN Ia · 2IUCN III · 2🌊 Marine · 1
Old Growth Management Areas (Mapped Legal)
IUCN Not ApplicableOld Growth Management Areas (Mapped Legal) · 2019
14 403 km²
Jasper National Park Of Canada
IUCN IINational Park · 1907
11 235 km²
Banff National Park Of Canada
IUCN IINational Park · 1885
6 857 km²
Kootenay National Park Of Canada
IUCN IINational Park · 1920
1 379 km²
Glacier National Park Of Canada
IUCN IINational Park · 1886
1 354 km²
Complete list22 protected areas
- Canadian Rocky Mountain ParksWorld Heritage Site (natural or mixed)IUCN Not Applicable198423 621 km²
- Old Growth Management Areas (Mapped Legal)Old Growth Management Areas (Mapped Legal)IUCN Not Applicable201914 403 km²
- Jasper National Park Of CanadaNational ParkIUCN II190711 235 km²
- Banff National Park Of CanadaNational ParkIUCN II18856 857 km²
- Kootenay National Park Of CanadaNational ParkIUCN II19201 379 km²
- Glacier National Park Of CanadaNational ParkIUCN II18861 354 km²
- Yoho National Park Of CanadaNational ParkIUCN II18861 292 km²
- INCOMAPPLEUX CONSERVANCYConservancyIUCN II2023587 km²
- HAMBER PARKA - ParkIUCN II1941252 km²
- CUMMINS LAKES PARKA - ParkIUCN Ib1995218 km²
- COLUMBIA WETLANDS WILDLIFE MANAGEMENT AREAWildlife Management AreaIUCN IV1996170 km²
- BUGABOO PARKA - ParkIUCN II1969138 km²
- GOOSEGRASS CREEK ECOLOGICAL RESERVEEcological ReserveIUCN Ia197427 km²
- Columbia National Wildlife AreaNational Wildlife AreaIUCN Ia197810 km²
- BURGES JAMES GADSDEN PARKA - ParkIUCN III19654 km²
- CUMMINS RIVER PROTECTED AREAProtected AreaIUCN Ib20003 km²
- Columbia NWA - Harrogate UnitPrivately Owned Conservation AreaIUCN IV20192 km²
- MARL CREEK PARKA - ParkIUCN III19612 km²
- Moberly Marsh - Sigge PurchasePrivately Owned Conservation AreaIUCN IV20240 km²
- DUC Fee Simple LandsOwnership by Environmental Non-Governmental OrganizationIUCN IV20240 km²
- Columbia River - CastledalePrivately Owned Conservation AreaIUCN IV20190 km²
- Columbia River - HabartPrivately Owned Conservation AreaIUCN IV20190 km²
WDPA (World Database on Protected Areas) — UNEP-WCMC & IUCN