HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080299600
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
720,2km²
Upstream area
3 500,6km²
Discharge
51,42m³/s
Mean elev.
1 513m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Michel Creek637 km²
- Bassin de Elk River325 km²
1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 722.6 km²100.0% of basin
13 intersecting protected areas
Privately Owned Conservation Area
32.30 km² overlap
Privately Owned Conservation Area
10.85 km² overlap
Privately Protected Area
4.23 km² overlap
MOUNT FERNIE PARK
IUCN IIA - Park
2.54 km² overlap
Privately Owned Conservation Area
1.74 km² overlap
ELK VALLEY PARK
IUCN IIIA - Park
0.78 km² overlap
Morrisey Meadows
IUCN IVPrivately Owned Conservation Area
0.52 km² overlap
Privately Protected Area
0.52 km² overlap
MORRISSEY PARK
IUCN IIA - Park
0.05 km² overlap
4 more protected areassorted by overlap area
Wigwam Flats - Lot 23
IUCN IVPrivately Owned Conservation Area
0.04 km² overlap
Wigwam Flats - Lot 2
IUCN IVPrivately Owned Conservation Area
0.02 km² overlap
Wigwam Flats - Lot 3
IUCN IVPrivately Owned Conservation Area
0.02 km² overlap
Wigwam Flats - Lots 57, 58
IUCN IVPrivately Owned Conservation Area
0.02 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
1 524 distinct species · 92 612 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 30 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 : 18 espèces reliées par 85 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 17.1%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 14 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°
2,2°C
Annual rain
796mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,07
Runoff
486mm/an
PET
742mm
AET
543mm
Mean slope
18,6°
Water table
539cm
Forest
94%
Crops
1%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)