HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080225090
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
404,4km²
Upstream area
1 976,9km²
Discharge
35,71m³/s
Mean elev.
1 999m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 311.3 km²76.7% of basin
- 94.7 km²23.3% of basin
4 intersecting protected areas
Canadian Rocky Mountain Parks
IUCN Not ApplicableWorld Heritage Site (natural or mixed)
94.37 km² overlap
National Park
92.52 km² overlap
Siffleur Wilderness Area
IUCN IaWilderness Area
90.84 km² overlap
Ecological Reserve
21.52 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
1 036 distinct species · 6 682 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 46 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 : 28 espèces reliées par 121 interactions GloBI sur 5 types (connectance 10.7%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 20 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°
-1,7°C
Annual rain
644mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,11
Runoff
502mm/an
PET
572mm
AET
467mm
Mean slope
19,5°
Water table
545cm
Forest
43%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
51%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)