HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080309330
Bassin de Departure 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 : Cochrane
Sub-basin area
778,6km²
Upstream area
6 740,1km²
Discharge
76,75m³/s
Mean elev.
282m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Rivière Mattawasaga694 km²
- Bassin de McCool Creek424 km²
3 intersecting protected areas
Conservation Reserve
24.29 km² overlap
Provincial Park
21.18 km² overlap
Provincial Park
11.47 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
110 distinct species · 262 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 Departure Creek : 31 espèces reliées par 49 interactions GloBI sur 3 types (connectance 7.4%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 6 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°
0,7°C
Annual rain
831mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,15
Runoff
449mm/an
PET
709mm
AET
558mm
Mean slope
0,8°
Water table
11cm
Forest
56%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
7%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)