HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080259370
Bassin de Salmon 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 : Columbia-Shuswap, North Okanagan, Thompson-Nicola
Sub-basin area
2 118,3km²
Upstream area
2 118,3km²
Discharge
22,05m³/s
Mean elev.
1 020m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 1127.2 km²53.0% of basin
- 946.3 km²44.5% of basin
- 52.3 km²2.5% of basin
10 intersecting protected areas
Old Growth Management Areas (Mapped Legal)
IUCN Not ApplicableOld Growth Management Areas (Mapped Legal)
5.02 km² overlap
WHITE LAKE PARK
IUCN Not ReportedA - Park
2.66 km² overlap
HERALD PARK
IUCN Not ReportedA - Park
0.80 km² overlap
SHUSWAP LAKE MARINE PARK
IUCN Not ReportedA - Park
0.64 km² overlap
UPPER VIOLET CREEK PARK
IUCN IIIA - Park
0.36 km² overlap
Privately Owned Conservation Area
0.11 km² overlap
Philips Lake
IUCN IVPrivately Owned Conservation Area
0.09 km² overlap
Privately Protected Area
0.09 km² overlap
Privately Owned Conservation Area
0.09 km² overlap
1 more protected areassorted by overlap area
MONTE LAKE PARK
IUCN Not ReportedA - Park
0.05 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
2 459 distinct species · 748 217 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 31 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 Salmon River : 22 espèces dont 1 patrimoniale (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 61 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 13.1%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 9 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°
4,4°C
Annual rain
470mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,38
Runoff
324mm/an
PET
763mm
AET
398mm
Mean slope
10,8°
Water table
445cm
Forest
78%
Crops
3%
Urban
1%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)