HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080272700
Bassin de Rivière de l'Épinette Rouge
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 : Le Fjord-du-Saguenay, Maria-Chapdelaine
Sub-basin area
405,7km²
Upstream area
405,7km²
Discharge
9,22m³/s
Mean elev.
595m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 407.1 km²100.0% of basin
- 0.0 km²0.0% of basin
4 intersecting protected areas
Lac-du-Boxer Old-Growth Forest
IUCN IIIOld-growth forest
12.62 km² overlap
Old-growth forest
3.40 km² overlap
02451R043 Biological Refuge
IUCN IVBiological refuge
1.33 km² overlap
02451R045 Biological Refuge
IUCN IVBiological refuge
0.64 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
63 distinct species · 575 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 29 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 de l'Épinette Rouge : 23 espèces dont 1 patrimoniale (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 38 interactions GloBI sur 2 types (connectance 9.4%, 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°
-1,5°C
Annual rain
1 021mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,43
Runoff
715mm/an
PET
587mm
AET
549mm
Mean slope
5,1°
Water table
100cm
Forest
94%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
4%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)