HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080280290
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
509,9km²
Upstream area
2 340,8km²
Discharge
15,91m³/s
Mean elev.
448m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Brightsand River1488 km²
- Bassin de Brightsand River343 km²
2 intersecting protected areas
Provincial Park
93.83 km² overlap
Wabakimi Provincial Park
IUCN IbProvincial Park
3.66 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
106 distinct species · 601 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 : 22 espèces dont 1 patrimoniale (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 55 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 10.4%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 11 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°
-0,2°C
Annual rain
764mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,08
Runoff
284mm/an
PET
701mm
AET
555mm
Mean slope
1,5°
Water table
31cm
Forest
43%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
19%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)