HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080026200
Bassin de Rivière Richard
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
97,8km²
Upstream area
14 368,3km²
Discharge
262,22m³/s
Mean elev.
177m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
Outlet (drains to ocean / endorheic)
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Rivière Nastapoka1106 km²
- Bassin de Rivière Nastapoka116 km²
1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 98.2 km²99.9% of basin
2 intersecting protected areas
Quebec's national park
64.33 km² overlap
Quebec's national park
0.02 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
98 distinct species · 154 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 18 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 Rivière Richard : 13 espèces reliées par 19 interactions GloBI sur 3 types (connectance 10.0%, 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°
-6,1°C
Annual rain
530mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,31
Runoff
523mm/an
PET
364mm
AET
316mm
Mean slope
5,4°
Water table
81cm
Forest
0%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
66%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)