HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080251970
Bassin de Kananaskis 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 2 administrative regions : Division No. 15, East Kootenay
Sub-basin area
955,8km²
Upstream area
955,9km²
Discharge
7,32m³/s
Mean elev.
2 051m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 953.8 km²99.4% of basin
- 5.4 km²0.6% of basin
9 intersecting protected areas
Provincial Park
463.54 km² overlap
Wildland Provincial Park
188.29 km² overlap
Spray Valley Provincial Park
IUCN IIProvincial Park
108.92 km² overlap
Wildland Provincial Park
69.38 km² overlap
Bow Valley Provincial Park
IUCN IIProvincial Park
23.33 km² overlap
ELK LAKES PARK
IUCN IIA - Park
2.89 km² overlap
Canadian Rocky Mountain Parks
IUCN Not ApplicableWorld Heritage Site (natural or mixed)
2.07 km² overlap
HEIGHT OF THE ROCKIES PARK
IUCN IIA - Park
1.15 km² overlap
National Park
0.82 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
1 886 distinct species · 84 475 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 30 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 Kananaskis River : 18 espèces dont 1 patrimoniale (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 75 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 16.1%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 13 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°
-1,2°C
Annual rain
635mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,06
Runoff
287mm/an
PET
597mm
AET
482mm
Mean slope
21,3°
Water table
628cm
Forest
61%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
92%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)