Water Supply Area · can
Greater Victoria Water Supply Area
- Area
- 206 km²
- IUCN cat.
- Not Applicable
- Year
- 2023
Overview
- Designation
- Water Supply Area
- Established
- 2023
- Managing authority
- Capital Region District
Source : WDPA (UNEP-WCMC, World Database on Protected Areas).
Species present
563 distinct species · 2 446 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 49 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 Greater Victoria Water Supply Area : 32 espèces dont 1 patrimoniale (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 115 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 9.4%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 18 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 · 8 lakes · 13 rivers
Hydrology metrics for this exact territory
Stream length here
62,9km
Lake surface here
9,13km²
Basins crossed
2
Max stream order
3
Max drainage
2 377km²
Discharge in basins
0,3m³/s
Mean precip.
1 246mm/an
Mean T°
8,7°C
Moisture idx
0,32
Max snow
28%
Mean runoff
1 123mm/an
Mean elev. (basins)
244m
Watersheds crossing here
Lakes (8, top by area)
Rivers / streams (13, ord ≥ 4)
- Leech Riverord 3len here19.51 km81%total24 km
- Cragg Creekord 2len here10.78 km100%total11 km
- Goldstream Riverord 1len here7.21 km98%total7 km
- Rithet Creekord 1len here6.86 km100%total7 km
- Judge Creekord 1len here6.49 km100%total6 km
- Leech Riverord 1len here5.63 km100%total6 km
- Council Creekord 1len here3.10 km98%total3 km
- Sooke Riverord 3len here1.95 km9%total22 km
- Jordan Riverord 3len here0.51 km2%total30 km
- Langford Creekord 2len here0.41 km6%total6 km
- Waugh Creekord 1len here0.30 km4%total7 km
- Old Wolf Creekord 2len here0.17 km4%total4 km
1 more river segmentssorted by Strahler order + length
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
- 48.53853, -123.80072
- 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.