HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080201550
Bassin de Red Deer 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. 19, Division No. 20, Division No. 21
Sub-basin area
1 251,5km²
Upstream area
14 567,9km²
Discharge
24,21m³/s
Mean elev.
309m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Red Deer River1350 km²
- Bassin de Armit River1194 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 876.7 km²69.8% of basin
- 205.5 km²16.4% of basin
- 174.4 km²13.9% of basin
3 intersecting protected areas
Wildlife Management Area
82.12 km² overlap
Provincial Forest
37.23 km² overlap
Ecological Reserve
11.85 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
279 distinct species · 1 288 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 43 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 Red Deer River : 28 espèces reliées par 100 interactions GloBI sur 3 types (connectance 11.1%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 15 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°
0,7°C
Annual rain
454mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,35
Runoff
33mm/an
PET
695mm
AET
393mm
Mean slope
0,8°
Water table
10cm
Forest
61%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
3%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)