HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080274800
Bassin de Brightsand 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 1 administrative regions : Thunder Bay
Sub-basin area
149,3km²
Upstream area
2 715,3km²
Discharge
17,79m³/s
Mean elev.
431m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Brightsand River510 km²
- Bassin de Brightsand River225 km²
2 intersecting protected areas
Wabakimi Provincial Park
IUCN IbProvincial Park
85.07 km² overlap
Provincial Park
63.45 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
47 distinct species · 68 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 32 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 Brightsand River : 31 espèces dont 1 patrimoniale (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 39 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 7.9%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 1 bulle taxonomique (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°
-0,4°C
Annual rain
758mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,08
Runoff
244mm/an
PET
696mm
AET
550mm
Mean slope
1,5°
Water table
31cm
Forest
76%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
98%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)