HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080207980
Bassin de MacDowell 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 : Kenora
Sub-basin area
2 790,8km²
Upstream area
2 790,8km²
Discharge
27,6m³/s
Mean elev.
360m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
2 intersecting protected areas
Cat Lake-Slate Falls Dedicated Protected Area
IUCN Not ReportedProtected Area - Far North
89.28 km² overlap
Provincial Park
19.59 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
99 distinct species · 171 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 36 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 MacDowell River : 29 espèces dont 1 patrimoniale (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 55 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 8.7%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 7 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°
-1,2°C
Annual rain
643mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,04
Runoff
329mm/an
PET
615mm
AET
482mm
Mean slope
1,1°
Water table
15cm
Forest
78%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
1%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)