HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080292340
Bassin de Koch 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
832,2km²
Upstream area
832,3km²
Discharge
16,91m³/s
Mean elev.
1 622m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 835.0 km²100.0% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
VALHALLA PARK
IUCN IIA - Park
14.66 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
733 distinct species · 3 468 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 44 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 Koch Creek : 28 espèces dont 1 patrimoniale (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 88 interactions GloBI sur 5 types (connectance 8.9%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 17 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°
2,1°C
Annual rain
758mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,14
Runoff
641mm/an
PET
651mm
AET
492mm
Mean slope
23,7°
Water table
776cm
Forest
87%
Crops
1%
Urban
0%
Protected
2%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)