HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080249740
Bassin de Bow 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 : Columbia-Shuswap, Division No. 15, East Kootenay
Sub-basin area
2 208,5km²
Upstream area
2 208,6km²
Discharge
27,34m³/s
Mean elev.
2 141m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 2198.3 km²99.2% of basin
- 9.6 km²0.4% of basin
- 8.8 km²0.4% of basin
5 intersecting protected areas
Canadian Rocky Mountain Parks
IUCN Not ApplicableWorld Heritage Site (natural or mixed)
2216.67 km² overlap
National Park
2200.41 km² overlap
Yoho National Park Of Canada
IUCN IINational Park
6.16 km² overlap
National Park
4.28 km² overlap
MOUNT ASSINIBOINE PARK
IUCN IIA - Park
2.01 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
4 548 distinct species · 241 750 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 40 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 Bow River : 32 espèces reliées par 80 interactions GloBI sur 5 types (connectance 10.3%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 8 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°
-2,1°C
Annual rain
643mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,13
Runoff
389mm/an
PET
559mm
AET
461mm
Mean slope
19,9°
Water table
556cm
Forest
56%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
100%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)