HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080320860
Bassin de Ruisseau Creux
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 : Le Fjord-du-Saguenay
Sub-basin area
256,9km²
Upstream area
76 104,2km²
Discharge
1 631,6m³/s
Mean elev.
128m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Rivière Shipshaw2225 km²
- Bassin de Rivière Mistouk1497 km²
1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 257.7 km²100.0% of basin
2 intersecting protected areas
Falaises de Chicoutimi (partie Lévesque-Mérette) Natural Area Under Private Stewardship
IUCN Not ReportedNatural Area Under Private Stewardship
0.05 km² overlap
Saguenay Fjord Upstream Closure
IUCN Not ApplicableOther Effective Area-Based Conservation Measure
0.03 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
1 301 distinct species · 187 224 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 36 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 Ruisseau Creux : 24 espèces reliées par 97 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 15.4%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 12 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°
2,5°C
Annual rain
928mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,22
Runoff
693mm/an
PET
722mm
AET
595mm
Mean slope
1,6°
Water table
27cm
Forest
56%
Crops
10%
Urban
12%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)