HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080317700
Bassin de Rainy 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 2 administrative regions across 2 countries : Koochiching, Rainy River
Sub-basin area
230,4km²
Upstream area
38 241,3km²
Discharge
312,12m³/s
Mean elev.
346m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin · #70803145303889 km²
- Bassin de Jackfish Creek195 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 127.4 km²55.1% of basin
- 103.7 km²44.9% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Conservation Reserve
0.08 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
921 distinct species · 40 301 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 31 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 Rainy River : 22 espèces reliées par 81 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 17.4%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 9 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°
2,8°C
Annual rain
658mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,15
Runoff
235mm/an
PET
777mm
AET
557mm
Mean slope
0,5°
Water table
4cm
Forest
7%
Crops
7%
Urban
6%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)