HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080282720
Bassin de Bow 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. 1, Division No. 2
Sub-basin area
360,2km²
Upstream area
23 861,6km²
Discharge
101,88m³/s
Mean elev.
757m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 3 basins
- Bassin de Bantry Canal1981 km²
- Bassin de Bow River1960 km²
- Bassin · #70800771101000 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 218.4 km²60.4% of basin
- 143.0 km²39.6% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
East Hays
IUCN VIFee Simple Property
0.58 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
236 distinct species · 1 257 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 31 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 Bow River : 20 espèces dont 1 patrimoniale (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 104 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 22.4%, 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°
4,9°C
Annual rain
337mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,61
Runoff
91mm/an
PET
874mm
AET
297mm
Mean slope
0,9°
Water table
360cm
Forest
4%
Crops
24%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)