HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080233170
Bassin de Cat 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
369,7km²
Upstream area
369,9km²
Discharge
2,13m³/s
Mean elev.
421m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
1 intersecting protected areas
Cat Lake-Slate Falls Dedicated Protected Area
IUCN Not ReportedProtected Area - Far North
136.83 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
67 distinct species · 127 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 29 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 Cat River : 25 espèces dont 1 patrimoniale (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 37 interactions GloBI sur 3 types (connectance 9.1%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 4 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°
-0,8°C
Annual rain
679mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,07
Runoff
227mm/an
PET
631mm
AET
501mm
Mean slope
0,8°
Water table
15cm
Forest
94%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)