HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080249530
Bassin de Red Deer 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 3 administrative regions : Division No. 2, Division No. 4, Division No. 5
Sub-basin area
509,8km²
Upstream area
29 637,3km²
Discharge
58,9m³/s
Mean elev.
825m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Red Deer River405 km²
- Bassin de Red Deer River81 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 264.8 km²51.7% of basin
- 224.9 km²44.0% of basin
- 22.0 km²4.3% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Ecological Reserve
1.13 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
435 distinct species · 6 266 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 38 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 Red Deer River : 23 espèces reliées par 119 interactions GloBI sur 5 types (connectance 16.1%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 16 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°
3,0°C
Annual rain
354mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,56
Runoff
49mm/an
PET
810mm
AET
313mm
Mean slope
2,8°
Water table
294cm
Forest
7%
Crops
36%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)