HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080219510
Bassin de Foster Creek
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 : Columbia-Shuswap, Fraser-Fort George, Thompson-Nicola
Sub-basin area
279,1km²
Upstream area
279,1km²
Discharge
9,99m³/s
Mean elev.
1 859m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 275.4 km²98.3% of basin
- 2.5 km²0.9% of basin
- 2.3 km²0.8% of basin
2 intersecting protected areas
Old Growth Management Areas (Mapped Legal)
IUCN Not ApplicableOld Growth Management Areas (Mapped Legal)
12.68 km² overlap
FOSTER ARM PROTECTED AREA
IUCN IIProtected Area
2.84 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
18 distinct species · 23 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Not enough documented interactions to build a meaningful graph for this territory.
Hydroclimate (BasinATLAS lev08)
Mean T°
-0,8°C
Annual rain
772mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,27
Runoff
1 108mm/an
PET
561mm
AET
451mm
Mean slope
24,4°
Water table
701cm
Forest
20%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
1%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)