HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080242990
Bassin de Columbia 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 : Columbia-Shuswap
Sub-basin area
211,7km²
Upstream area
8 735,3km²
Discharge
149,79m³/s
Mean elev.
1 520m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Kicking Horse River1815 km²
- Bassin de Columbia River815 km²
1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 212.5 km²100.0% of basin
5 intersecting protected areas
Wildlife Management Area
16.53 km² overlap
BURGES JAMES GADSDEN PARK
IUCN IIIA - Park
3.56 km² overlap
Privately Owned Conservation Area
0.49 km² overlap
DUC Fee Simple Lands
IUCN IVOwnership by Environmental Non-Governmental Organization
0.49 km² overlap
National Park
0.37 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
547 distinct species · 15 277 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 Columbia River : 20 espèces reliées par 60 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 14.8%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 9 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°
0,6°C
Annual rain
803mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,18
Runoff
975mm/an
PET
643mm
AET
481mm
Mean slope
16,2°
Water table
518cm
Forest
64%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
10%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)