HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080298300
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 : Central Kootenay
Sub-basin area
142,1km²
Upstream area
50 040,2km²
Discharge
842,02m³/s
Mean elev.
1 169m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Kokanee Creek1073 km²
- Bassin de Slocan River149 km²
1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 142.5 km²100.0% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
488 distinct species · 3 720 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 37 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 : 23 espèces reliées par 93 interactions GloBI sur 6 types (connectance 12.6%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 16 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°
4,7°C
Annual rain
792mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,05
Runoff
644mm/an
PET
760mm
AET
529mm
Mean slope
18,4°
Water table
528cm
Forest
100%
Crops
1%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)