National Park · can
Glacier National Park Of Canada
- Area
- 1 354 km²
- IUCN cat.
- II
- Year
- 1886
Overview
- Designation
- National Park
- IUCN category
- II · Parc national
Écosystèmes préservés + récréation grand public
- Established
- 1886
- Managing authority
- Parks Canada Agency
Source : WDPA (UNEP-WCMC, World Database on Protected Areas).
Species present
2 432 distinct species · 32 838 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 27 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 Glacier National Park Of Canada : 21 espèces reliées par 35 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 10.0%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 6 bulles taxonomiques (cascade genre/famille GloBI, ≥3 espèces).
Comparaison sur la connectance du réseau local complet vs distribution nationale (toutes les communes françaises).
Hydrology10 basins · 0 lakes · 24 rivers
Hydrology metrics for this exact territory
Stream length here
412,0km
Basins crossed
10
Max stream order
4
Max drainage
10 615km²
Discharge in basins
63,8m³/s
Mean precip.
1 000mm/an
Mean T°
-0,4°C
Moisture idx
0,43
Max snow
65%
Mean runoff
1 438mm/an
Mean elev. (basins)
1 801m
Watersheds crossing here
- Bassin de Beaver Riversub-area1 163,1 km²overlap880.62 km²65%
- Bassin de Incomappleux Riversub-area1 251,1 km²overlap239.14 km²18%
- Bassin de Illecillewaet Riversub-area1 213,4 km²overlap227.15 km²17%
- Bassin de Duncan Riversub-area1 533,4 km²overlap3.68 km²0%
- Bassin de Bachelor Creeksub-area566,3 km²overlap1.23 km²0%
- Bassin de Spillimacheen Riversub-area1 456,3 km²overlap0.88 km²0%
- Bassin de Columbia Riversub-area211,7 km²overlap0.37 km²0%
- Bassin de Downie Creeksub-area656 km²overlap0.30 km²0%
- Bassin de Quartz Creeksub-area238,6 km²overlap0.20 km²0%
1 more basinssorted by overlap
Rivers / streams (24, ord ≥ 4)
- Beaver Riverord 4len here112.49 km82%total137 km
- Mountain Creekord 4len here54.47 km66%total82 km
- Incomappleux Riverord 4len here33.74 km33%total102 km
- Illecillewaet Riverord 6len here26.68 km26%total103 km
- Casualty Creekord 2len here21.53 km100%total21 km
- Grizzly Creekord 3len here20.14 km39%total52 km
- Ursus Creekord 3len here17.29 km100%total17 km
- Van Horne Brookord 3len here16.86 km100%total17 km
- East Grizzly Creekord 2len here13.95 km100%total14 km
- Flat Creekord 7len here12.60 km9%total137 km
- Cougar Brookord 3len here9.42 km100%total9 km
- Bostock Creekord 2len here8.31 km100%total8 km
12 more river segmentssorted by Strahler order + length
- Connaught Creekord 2len here8.28 km100%total8 km
- Slick Creekord 3len here7.89 km67%total12 km
- Mitre Creekord 2len here7.48 km100%total7 km
- Loop Brookord 2len here6.69 km100%total7 km
- Bain Brookord 1len here6.59 km100%total7 km
- Stoney Creekord 2len here5.63 km39%total14 km
- Asulkan Brookord 1len here4.85 km100%total5 km
- Avalanche Creekord 2len here4.72 km37%total13 km
- Cut Creekord 1len here3.88 km100%total4 km
- Black Creekord 3len here3.57 km8%total44 km
- Tupper Creekord 2len here3.51 km49%total7 km
- Sturdee Creekord 1len here1.45 km100%total1 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
- 51.26134, -117.53413
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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.