HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080294440
Bassin de Kootenay 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
359,3km²
Upstream area
12 053,7km²
Discharge
172,21m³/s
Mean elev.
1 108m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Wildhorse River196 km²
- Bassin de Kootenay River15 km²
1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 360.5 km²100.0% of basin
5 intersecting protected areas
NORBURY LAKE PARK
IUCN IIIA - Park
1.03 km² overlap
Privately Owned Conservation Area
0.83 km² overlap
Wildlife Habitat Areas
IUCN Not ApplicableWildlife Habitat Areas
0.40 km² overlap
Bull River - Armstrong
IUCN IVPrivately Owned Conservation Area
0.39 km² overlap
Privately Owned Conservation Area
0.15 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
817 distinct species · 98 158 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 24 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 Kootenay River : 16 espèces dont 1 patrimoniale (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 52 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 18.8%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 8 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°
4,3°C
Annual rain
619mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,22
Runoff
418mm/an
PET
811mm
AET
491mm
Mean slope
11,1°
Water table
368cm
Forest
60%
Crops
3%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)