HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080018020
Bassin de Dean River
A watershed (drainage basin) is not a body of water — it is the land area where rainfall converges towards a single river that eventually reaches the sea (or an endorheic basin). Boundaries follow ridgelines.
Crosses 3 administrative regions : Bulkley-Nechako, Cariboo, Central Coast
Sub-basin area
1 100,3km²
Upstream area
7 767,9km²
Discharge
136,42m³/s
Mean elev.
1 171m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
Outlet (drains to ocean / endorheic)
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Tahyesco River742 km²
- Bassin de Dean River182 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 1082.7 km²98.0% of basin
- 19.6 km²1.8% of basin
- 2.4 km²0.2% of basin
4 intersecting protected areas
DEAN RIVER CONSERVANCY
IUCN IbConservancy
545.14 km² overlap
Conservancy
34.07 km² overlap
TWEEDSMUIR PARK
IUCN IIA - Park
24.69 km² overlap
JUMP ACROSS CONSERVANCY
IUCN IbConservancy
1.91 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
140 distinct species · 322 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 42 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 Bassin de Dean River : 36 espèces dont 1 patrimoniale (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 65 interactions GloBI sur 5 types (connectance 7.5%, 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).
Hydroclimate (BasinATLAS lev08)
Mean T°
2,2°C
Annual rain
1 083mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,47
Runoff
1 171mm/an
PET
571mm
AET
471mm
Mean slope
25,3°
Water table
855cm
Forest
31%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
55%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)