HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080164810
Bassin de Waterhen 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 1 administrative regions : Division No. 17
Sub-basin area
123,6km²
Upstream area
9 557km²
Discharge
17,72m³/s
Mean elev.
480m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Otter Creek338 km²
- Bassin de Waterhen River141 km²
1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- Division No. 17124.1 km²100.0% of basin
2 intersecting protected areas
Meadow Lake Provincial Park
IUCN IINatural Environment Park
59.46 km² overlap
Wildlife Habitat Protection
IUCN Not ApplicableWildlife Habitat Protection
0.55 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
64 distinct species · 99 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 29 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 Waterhen River : 25 espèces reliées par 26 interactions GloBI sur 3 types (connectance 6.4%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 4 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°
0,6°C
Annual rain
444mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,36
Runoff
26mm/an
PET
698mm
AET
386mm
Mean slope
0,8°
Water table
25cm
Forest
47%
Crops
5%
Urban
0%
Protected
48%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)