HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080156430
Bassin de Rivière Caniapiscau
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 : Nord-du-Québec, Sept-Rivières--Caniapiscau
Sub-basin area
1 924km²
Upstream area
29 627,1km²
Discharge
520,25m³/s
Mean elev.
543m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Rivière Caniapiscau1546 km²
- Bassin de Rivière Caniapiscau1157 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 1458.2 km²75.5% of basin
- 474.4 km²24.5% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
118 distinct species · 577 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 27 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 Caniapiscau : 18 espèces dont 1 patrimoniale (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 52 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 12.0%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 12 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°
-5,2°C
Annual rain
778mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,46
Runoff
454mm/an
PET
421mm
AET
394mm
Mean slope
1,4°
Water table
15cm
Forest
40%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)