HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080268130
Bassin de Rivière Nipissis
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 1 administrative regions : Sept-Rivières--Caniapiscau
Sub-basin area
169,6km²
Upstream area
4 193km²
Discharge
100,81m³/s
Mean elev.
350m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Rivière Nipisso774 km²
- Bassin de Rivière Nipissis332 km²
1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 170.2 km²100.0% of basin
4 intersecting protected areas
Land reserved for protected area
72.95 km² overlap
Proposed aquatic reserve
18.45 km² overlap
Proposed ecological reserve
9.74 km² overlap
09451R070 Biological Refuge
IUCN IVBiological refuge
2.84 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
21 distinct species · 41 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 8 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 Rivière Nipissis : 8 espèces reliées par 6 interactions GloBI sur 2 types (connectance 21.4%, filtre Serrano α=0.2).
Comparaison sur la connectance du réseau local complet vs distribution nationale (toutes les communes françaises).
Hydroclimate (BasinATLAS lev08)
Mean T°
-0,5°C
Annual rain
1 066mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,48
Runoff
833mm/an
PET
550mm
AET
520mm
Mean slope
9,6°
Water table
233cm
Forest
96%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
6%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)