HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080274970
Bassin de Elk 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. 15, East Kootenay
Sub-basin area
491,7km²
Upstream area
491,7km²
Discharge
6,1m³/s
Mean elev.
2 052m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 489.5 km²99.2% of basin
- 4.0 km²0.8% of basin
5 intersecting protected areas
ELK LAKES PARK
IUCN IIA - Park
174.04 km² overlap
HEIGHT OF THE ROCKIES PARK
IUCN IIA - Park
18.46 km² overlap
Wildland Provincial Park
2.64 km² overlap
Provincial Park
1.33 km² overlap
Wildland Provincial Park
0.61 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
432 distinct species · 1 743 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 37 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 Elk River : 16 espèces dont 1 patrimoniale (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 122 interactions GloBI sur 5 types (connectance 17.4%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 22 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°
-1,0°C
Annual rain
663mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,09
Runoff
379mm/an
PET
604mm
AET
491mm
Mean slope
19,8°
Water table
568cm
Forest
69%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
40%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)