HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080251180
Bassin de Austin Creek
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
573,7km²
Upstream area
573,7km²
Discharge
4,14m³/s
Mean elev.
396m
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
13.78 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
141 distinct species · 258 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 34 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 Austin Creek : 26 espèces dont 1 patrimoniale (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 59 interactions GloBI sur 3 types (connectance 9.4%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 10 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°
-0,5°C
Annual rain
717mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,09
Runoff
236mm/an
PET
650mm
AET
521mm
Mean slope
1,1°
Water table
23cm
Forest
68%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)