HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080259190
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. 2, Division No. 4
Sub-basin area
103,8km²
Upstream area
34 349,1km²
Discharge
57,12m³/s
Mean elev.
693m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 3 basins
- Bassin de Matzhiwin Creek2462 km²
- Bassin · #7080078880494 km²
- Bassin de Red Deer River355 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 72.2 km²69.3% of basin
- 31.9 km²30.7% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Dinosaur Provincial Park
IUCN IIProvincial Park
0.02 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
88 distinct species · 240 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 32 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 : 26 espèces dont 1 patrimoniale (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 60 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 12.1%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 6 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°
3,8°C
Annual rain
317mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,63
Runoff
58mm/an
PET
858mm
AET
283mm
Mean slope
1,6°
Water table
318cm
Forest
15%
Crops
35%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)