HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080205920
Bassin de Battle 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. 12, Division No. 13, Division No. 17
Sub-basin area
680,8km²
Upstream area
25 823,4km²
Discharge
18,17m³/s
Mean elev.
552m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Battle River1315 km²
- Bassin de Cut Knife Creek1114 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- Division No. 17388.3 km²56.8% of basin
- Division No. 12189.2 km²27.7% of basin
- Division No. 13106.2 km²15.5% of basin
5 intersecting protected areas
Battle River-Cutknife
IUCN VIProvincial Pasture
103.13 km² overlap
Paynton
IUCN VIProvincial Pasture
64.62 km² overlap
Wildlife Habitat Protection
IUCN Not ApplicableWildlife Habitat Protection
15.05 km² overlap
Private Conservation Lands
IUCN IVPrivate Conservation Lands
0.79 km² overlap
Crown Conservation Easement
IUCN IVCrown Conservation Easement
0.65 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
353 distinct species · 1 685 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 38 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 Battle River : 29 espèces dont 1 patrimoniale (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 94 interactions GloBI sur 5 types (connectance 12.7%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 10 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°
1,5°C
Annual rain
398mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,45
Runoff
18mm/an
PET
725mm
AET
350mm
Mean slope
0,7°
Water table
37cm
Forest
1%
Crops
68%
Urban
0%
Protected
27%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)