HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080278450
Bassin de Coldwater 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 : Fraser Valley, Okanagan-Similkameen, Thompson-Nicola
Sub-basin area
845,2km²
Upstream area
845,3km²
Discharge
9,52m³/s
Mean elev.
1 247m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 837.9 km²98.8% of basin
- 9.8 km²1.2% of basin
- 0.5 km²0.1% of basin
3 intersecting protected areas
Wildlife Habitat Areas
IUCN Not ApplicableWildlife Habitat Areas
8.43 km² overlap
COLDWATER RIVER PARK
IUCN IIA - Park
0.69 km² overlap
Recreation Area
0.41 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
2 272 distinct species · 82 127 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 Coldwater River : 26 espèces reliées par 88 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 12.5%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 12 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°
3,7°C
Annual rain
482mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,32
Runoff
403mm/an
PET
725mm
AET
396mm
Mean slope
12,1°
Water table
495cm
Forest
93%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)