HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080305020
Bassin de Pend Oreille 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 3 administrative regions across 2 countries : Central Kootenay, Pend Oreille, Stevens
Sub-basin area
285,3km²
Upstream area
65 515,3km²
Discharge
818,28m³/s
Mean elev.
1 154m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Pend Oreille River555 km²
- Bassin de Sullivan Creek355 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 254.0 km²88.7% of basin
- 26.8 km²9.4% of basin
- Stevens5.4 km²1.9% of basin
2 intersecting protected areas
Salmo-Priest
IUCN IbWilderness
29.46 km² overlap
Halliday Fen
IUCN IaResearch Natural Area
2.92 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
1 123 distinct species · 3 578 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 39 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 Pend Oreille River : 25 espèces dont 1 patrimoniale (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 130 interactions GloBI sur 6 types (connectance 16.7%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 15 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°
4,9°C
Annual rain
769mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,03
Runoff
512mm/an
PET
803mm
AET
533mm
Mean slope
15,9°
Water table
644cm
Forest
100%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
11%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)