HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080259970
Bassin de Bow 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. 5, Division No. 6
Sub-basin area
131,1km²
Upstream area
15 427,2km²
Discharge
101,62m³/s
Mean elev.
1 039m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Nose Creek2177 km²
- Bassin de Highwood River97 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 124.3 km²94.5% of basin
- 7.2 km²5.5% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
286 distinct species · 3 619 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 Bow River : 27 espèces dont 1 patrimoniale (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 105 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 13.5%, 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°
3,5°C
Annual rain
415mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,48
Runoff
177mm/an
PET
795mm
AET
365mm
Mean slope
1,8°
Water table
192cm
Forest
59%
Crops
75%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)