HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080025860
Bassin de Grande rivière de la Baleine
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 1 administrative regions : Nord-du-Québec
Sub-basin area
742,8km²
Upstream area
41 172,3km²
Discharge
583,15m³/s
Mean elev.
147m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
Outlet (drains to ocean / endorheic)
▲ Receives from 2 basins
1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 746.2 km²100.0% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
1 117 distinct species · 7 670 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 41 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 Grande rivière de la Baleine : 28 espèces dont 1 patrimoniale (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 89 interactions GloBI sur 6 types (connectance 9.9%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 15 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°
-5,0°C
Annual rain
636mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,35
Runoff
563mm/an
PET
415mm
AET
364mm
Mean slope
3,1°
Water table
79cm
Forest
53%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)