HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080256030
Bassin de Bell 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 2 administrative regions : Division No. 16, Division No. 5
Sub-basin area
82km²
Upstream area
17 544,4km²
Discharge
11,11m³/s
Mean elev.
485m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Shell River1928 km²
- Bassin de Assiniboine River665 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 80.6 km²98.1% of basin
- Division No. 51.6 km²1.9% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Privately Protected Area
0.25 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
164 distinct species · 297 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 Bell Creek : 26 espèces reliées par 102 interactions GloBI sur 6 types (connectance 11.8%, 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°
1,5°C
Annual rain
447mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,39
Runoff
34mm/an
PET
737mm
AET
388mm
Mean slope
1,0°
Water table
45cm
Forest
0%
Crops
44%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)