HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080020780
Bassin de Kicking Horse 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 2 administrative regions : Haines, Skagway-Yakutat-Angoon
Sub-basin area
175,8km²
Upstream area
3 951km²
Discharge
160,55m³/s
Mean elev.
828m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
Outlet (drains to ocean / endorheic)
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Takhin River312 km²
- Bassin de Chilkat River128 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 174.9 km²98.9% of basin
- 1.9 km²1.1% of basin
4 intersecting protected areas
Kluane / Wrangell-St Elias / Glacier Bay / Tatshenshini-Alsek
IUCN Not ApplicableWorld Heritage Site (natural or mixed)
6.39 km² overlap
Glacier Bay
IUCN IINational Park
1.33 km² overlap
Marine Protected Area
1.33 km² overlap
Glacier Bay
IUCN IbWilderness Area
1.33 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
411 distinct species · 3 585 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 36 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 Kicking Horse River : 29 espèces reliées par 48 interactions GloBI sur 5 types (connectance 7.6%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 7 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°
0,5°C
Annual rain
1 022mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,52
Runoff
1 244mm/an
PET
487mm
AET
401mm
Mean slope
21,6°
Water table
632cm
Forest
7%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
1%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)