HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080281480
Bassin de Wee Sandy Creek
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 : Central Kootenay
Sub-basin area
91,4km²
Upstream area
908,9km²
Discharge
25,38m³/s
Mean elev.
1 607m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Bonanza Creek237 km²
- Bassin de Wilson Creek94 km²
1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 91.7 km²100.0% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
VALHALLA PARK
IUCN IIA - Park
74.74 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
568 distinct species · 5 084 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 45 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 Wee Sandy Creek : 33 espèces dont 2 patrimoniales (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 97 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 9.8%, 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°
1,7°C
Annual rain
837mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,24
Runoff
824mm/an
PET
636mm
AET
491mm
Mean slope
22,5°
Water table
836cm
Forest
70%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
81%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)