HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080287420
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
324,6km²
Upstream area
2 143,7km²
Discharge
30,22m³/s
Mean elev.
1 731m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Fording River611 km²
- Bassin de Elk River547 km²
1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 325.6 km²100.0% of basin
2 intersecting protected areas
Big Ranch - Pigat
IUCN IVPrivately Owned Conservation Area
3.69 km² overlap
Big Ranch - Rankin
IUCN IVPrivately Owned Conservation Area
1.08 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
413 distinct species · 3 898 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 Elk River : 24 espèces dont 1 patrimoniale (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 82 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 15.5%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 9 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°
0,9°C
Annual rain
740mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,08
Runoff
479mm/an
PET
682mm
AET
524mm
Mean slope
19,1°
Water table
623cm
Forest
85%
Crops
1%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)