HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080166630
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 2 administrative regions : Division No. 17, Division No. 18
Sub-basin area
706,2km²
Upstream area
8 451,8km²
Discharge
16,34m³/s
Mean elev.
541m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Cold River832 km²
- Bassin de Sukaw Creek374 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- Division No. 17597.7 km²84.3% of basin
- Division No. 18111.6 km²15.7% of basin
2 intersecting protected areas
Meadow Lake Provincial Park
IUCN IINatural Environment Park
267.03 km² overlap
Private Conservation Lands
IUCN IVPrivate Conservation Lands
0.32 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
369 distinct species · 1 191 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 Waterhen River : 25 espèces reliées par 107 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 12.4%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 17 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
441mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,36
Runoff
20mm/an
PET
687mm
AET
384mm
Mean slope
1,2°
Water table
16cm
Forest
46%
Crops
14%
Urban
0%
Protected
38%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)