HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080224420
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 2 administrative regions : Division No. 15, Division No. 9
Sub-basin area
271,1km²
Upstream area
271,1km²
Discharge
3,91m³/s
Mean elev.
2 310m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 271.6 km²99.8% of basin
- 0.6 km²0.2% of basin
4 intersecting protected areas
Canadian Rocky Mountain Parks
IUCN Not ApplicableWorld Heritage Site (natural or mixed)
271.56 km² overlap
National Park
254.61 km² overlap
National Park
16.26 km² overlap
White Goat Wilderness Area
IUCN IaWilderness Area
1.25 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
864 distinct species · 8 621 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 59 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 : 16 espèces reliées par 275 interactions GloBI sur 5 types (connectance 10.2%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 58 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°
-3,2°C
Annual rain
677mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,26
Runoff
540mm/an
PET
498mm
AET
434mm
Mean slope
21,6°
Water table
641cm
Forest
22%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
100%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)