A - Park · can
HEIGHT OF THE ROCKIES PARK
- Area
- 542 km²
- IUCN cat.
- II
- Year
- 1995
Overview
- Designation
- A - Park
- IUCN category
- II · Parc national
Écosystèmes préservés + récréation grand public
- Established
- 1995
- Managing authority
- Government of British Columbia
Source : WDPA (UNEP-WCMC, World Database on Protected Areas).
Species present
346 distinct species · 939 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 37 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 HEIGHT OF THE ROCKIES PARK : 26 espèces dont 1 patrimoniale (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 86 interactions GloBI sur 5 types (connectance 11.6%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 13 bulles taxonomiques (cascade genre/famille GloBI, ≥3 espèces).
Comparaison sur la connectance du réseau local complet vs distribution nationale (toutes les communes françaises).
Hydrology7 basins · 9 lakes · 8 rivers
Hydrology metrics for this exact territory
Stream length here
74,1km
Lake surface here
3,24km²
Basins crossed
7
Max stream order
2
Max drainage
1 463km²
Discharge in basins
6,6m³/s
Mean precip.
666mm/an
Mean T°
-0,7°C
Moisture idx
0,08
Max snow
55%
Mean runoff
382mm/an
Mean elev. (basins)
1 969m
Watersheds crossing here
- Bassin de Palliser Riversub-area730,3 km²overlap269.55 km²50%
- Bassin de Quarrie Creeksub-area169,5 km²overlap129.43 km²24%
- Bassin de White Riversub-area1 462,6 km²overlap122.44 km²23%
- Bassin de Elk Riversub-area491,7 km²overlap18.46 km²3%
- Bassin de Kananaskis Riversub-area955,8 km²overlap1.15 km²0%
- Bassin de Elk Riversub-area546,7 km²overlap0.65 km²0%
- Bassin de Spray Riversub-area736,3 km²overlap0.20 km²0%
Lakes (9, top by area)
- Connor Lakesarea1,5 km²avg depth22.2 m
- Lac 957177area0,4 km²avg depth8.3 m
- Lac 948994area0,3 km²avg depth12.2 m
- Lac 949139area0,3 km²avg depth7.4 m
- Lac 953690area0,2 km²avg depth6.7 m
- Lac 953782area0,2 km²avg depth6.1 m
- Lac 950144area0,2 km²avg depth8.8 m
- Lac 953631area0,1 km²avg depth5.4 m
- Lac 955693area0,1 km²avg depth8.4 m
Rivers / streams (8, ord ≥ 4)
- Palliser Riverord 4len here30.31 km36%total84 km
- White Riverord 4len here12.61 km4%total301 km
- Quarrie Creekord 2len here12.50 km73%total17 km
- Joffre Creekord 2len here8.49 km82%total10 km
- Queen Mary Creekord 1len here3.41 km43%total8 km
- LeRoy Creekord 2len here2.89 km100%total3 km
- Elk Riverord 5len here2.10 km1%total211 km
- Forsyth Creekord 3len here1.82 km15%total12 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
- 50.48189, -115.22849
- 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.