HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080256330
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 2 administrative regions : Division No. 1, Division No. 4
Sub-basin area
676,5km²
Upstream area
42 526,1km²
Discharge
60,54m³/s
Mean elev.
673m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Red Deer River975 km²
- Bassin de Red Deer River564 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 662.1 km²97.5% of basin
- 16.8 km²2.5% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
National Wildlife Area
16.48 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
559 distinct species · 2 790 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 37 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 : 24 espèces reliées par 115 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 17.3%, 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°
3,6°C
Annual rain
317mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,63
Runoff
30mm/an
PET
853mm
AET
281mm
Mean slope
1,3°
Water table
308cm
Forest
0%
Crops
25%
Urban
0%
Protected
2%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)