HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080256910
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 3 administrative regions : Division No. 1, Division No. 2, Division No. 4
Sub-basin area
1 333,6km²
Upstream area
39 753,6km²
Discharge
58,44m³/s
Mean elev.
743m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Onetree Creek667 km²
- Bassin de Red Deer River40 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 744.5 km²55.6% of basin
- 301.4 km²22.5% of basin
- 292.5 km²21.9% of basin
2 intersecting protected areas
Dinosaur Provincial Park
IUCN Not ApplicableWorld Heritage Site (natural or mixed)
72.27 km² overlap
Dinosaur Provincial Park
IUCN IIProvincial Park
60.64 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
1 222 distinct species · 61 168 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 39 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 : 28 espèces reliées par 105 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 14.2%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 11 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
36mm/an
PET
854mm
AET
282mm
Mean slope
1,5°
Water table
311cm
Forest
1%
Crops
25%
Urban
0%
Protected
12%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)