HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080321100
Bassin de Rivière Chicoutimi
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
241,4km²
Upstream area
3 556,8km²
Discharge
87,51m³/s
Mean elev.
225m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Rivière Cyriac389 km²
- Bassin de Rivière Pikauba360 km²
1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 242.1 km²100.0% of basin
4 intersecting protected areas
02352R026 Biological Refuge
IUCN IVBiological refuge
1.83 km² overlap
Heronry
0.23 km² overlap
Boisé-Verdone Natural reserve
IUCN Not ReportedRecognized nature reserve
0.06 km² overlap
Natural Area Under Private Stewardship
0.06 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
1 372 distinct species · 196 282 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 Rivière Chicoutimi : 26 espèces reliées par 103 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 16.3%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 10 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°
2,3°C
Annual rain
978mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,27
Runoff
692mm/an
PET
711mm
AET
603mm
Mean slope
3,4°
Water table
62cm
Forest
69%
Crops
9%
Urban
6%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)