HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080232040
Bassin de Rivière Sainte-Marguerite
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 : Sept-Rivières--Caniapiscau
Sub-basin area
712,7km²
Upstream area
712,7km²
Discharge
19,08m³/s
Mean elev.
564m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 715.4 km²100.0% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
8 distinct species · 17 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°
-3,1°C
Annual rain
971mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,45
Runoff
788mm/an
PET
529mm
AET
492mm
Mean slope
2,6°
Water table
43cm
Forest
47%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)