HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080268850
Bassin de Kootenay 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, Division No. 15, East Kootenay
Sub-basin area
2 705,4km²
Upstream area
2 705,4km²
Discharge
33,22m³/s
Mean elev.
1 879m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 2610.5 km²96.1% of basin
- 91.5 km²3.4% of basin
- 13.2 km²0.5% of basin
5 intersecting protected areas
Canadian Rocky Mountain Parks
IUCN Not ApplicableWorld Heritage Site (natural or mixed)
1601.73 km² overlap
National Park
1194.87 km² overlap
MOUNT ASSINIBOINE PARK
IUCN IIA - Park
386.46 km² overlap
National Park
13.99 km² overlap
Yoho National Park Of Canada
IUCN IINational Park
7.45 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
2 201 distinct species · 27 110 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 43 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 Kootenay River : 29 espèces dont 2 patrimoniales (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 95 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 10.0%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 15 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°
-0,8°C
Annual rain
646mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,06
Runoff
378mm/an
PET
607mm
AET
474mm
Mean slope
21,9°
Water table
598cm
Forest
54%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
59%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)