HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080292200
Bassin de Lemon 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
1 277,1km²
Upstream area
2 400,1km²
Discharge
62,2m³/s
Mean elev.
1 512m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Carpenter Creek215 km²
- Bassin de Wee Sandy Creek91 km²
1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 1281.3 km²100.0% of basin
6 intersecting protected areas
VALHALLA PARK
IUCN IIA - Park
401.03 km² overlap
KOKANEE GLACIER PARK
IUCN IIA - Park
69.73 km² overlap
Ecological Reserve
1.64 km² overlap
Privately Owned Conservation Area
0.62 km² overlap
Slocan River Island
IUCN IVPrivately Owned Conservation Area
0.61 km² overlap
Colleen's Beach Park
IUCN IVPrivately Owned Conservation Area
0.00 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
1 599 distinct species · 19 153 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 40 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 Lemon Creek : 30 espèces reliées par 78 interactions GloBI sur 5 types (connectance 9.5%, 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°
2,4°C
Annual rain
829mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,20
Runoff
763mm/an
PET
663mm
AET
502mm
Mean slope
22,5°
Water table
783cm
Forest
83%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
37%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)