HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080283910
Bassin de Elk 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 : East Kootenay
Sub-basin area
546,7km²
Upstream area
1 207,9km²
Discharge
16,98m³/s
Mean elev.
1 814m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Elk River492 km²
- Bassin de Quarrie Creek170 km²
1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 548.5 km²100.0% of basin
2 intersecting protected areas
HEIGHT OF THE ROCKIES PARK
IUCN IIA - Park
0.65 km² overlap
Big Ranch - Rankin
IUCN IVPrivately Owned Conservation Area
0.07 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
536 distinct species · 2 936 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 Elk River : 32 espèces reliées par 128 interactions GloBI sur 5 types (connectance 12.4%, 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°
0,3°C
Annual rain
707mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,07
Runoff
463mm/an
PET
658mm
AET
513mm
Mean slope
20,0°
Water table
621cm
Forest
82%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)