HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080283340
Bassin de Skookumchuck 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 : East Kootenay
Sub-basin area
879km²
Upstream area
7 251,4km²
Discharge
93,56m³/s
Mean elev.
1 673m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Findlay Creek888 km²
- Bassin de Kootenay River327 km²
1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 882.0 km²100.0% of basin
10 intersecting protected areas
A - Park
137.38 km² overlap
Kootenay River Ranch
IUCN IVPrivately Owned Conservation Area
13.40 km² overlap
Privately Protected Area
13.40 km² overlap
Privately Owned Conservation Area
1.29 km² overlap
Privately Protected Area
1.29 km² overlap
Privately Owned Conservation Area
1.28 km² overlap
Privately Protected Area
1.28 km² overlap
Privately Protected Area
0.89 km² overlap
Wildlife Habitat Areas
IUCN Not ApplicableWildlife Habitat Areas
0.52 km² overlap
1 more protected areassorted by overlap area
ST. MARY'S ALPINE PARK
IUCN IbA - Park
0.27 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
346 distinct species · 3 166 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 33 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 Skookumchuck Creek : 20 espèces reliées par 71 interactions GloBI sur 3 types (connectance 12.7%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 14 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
689mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,04
Runoff
393mm/an
PET
661mm
AET
477mm
Mean slope
17,6°
Water table
618cm
Forest
69%
Crops
1%
Urban
0%
Protected
16%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)