HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080175620
Bassin de North Saskatchewan 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 3 administrative regions : Division No. 10, Division No. 11, Division No. 13
Sub-basin area
292,5km²
Upstream area
37 913,7km²
Discharge
225,69m³/s
Mean elev.
625m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 223.8 km²76.2% of basin
- 50.2 km²17.1% of basin
- 19.7 km²6.7% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
497 distinct species · 2 435 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 35 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 North Saskatchewan River : 24 espèces dont 1 patrimoniale (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 91 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 15.3%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 11 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°
1,8°C
Annual rain
444mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,41
Runoff
17mm/an
PET
751mm
AET
386mm
Mean slope
0,6°
Water table
33cm
Forest
7%
Crops
66%
Urban
0%
Protected
4%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)