HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080322330
Bassin de Kaministiquia 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 : Lake Superior, Thunder Bay
Sub-basin area
1 605,2km²
Upstream area
8 027,6km²
Discharge
101,44m³/s
Mean elev.
351m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Kaministiquia River417 km²
- Bassin de Shebandowan River401 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 1457.7 km²90.5% of basin
- 152.4 km²9.5% of basin
5 intersecting protected areas
Provincial Park
5.04 km² overlap
Provincial Park
4.52 km² overlap
Conservation Reserve
3.36 km² overlap
Picture Lake Nature Reserve
IUCN IaNGO/Land Trust/Agency - Fee Simple Property
0.40 km² overlap
Kam Valley Nature Reserve
IUCN IaNGO/Land Trust/Agency - Fee Simple Property
0.09 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
2 770 distinct species · 126 197 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 32 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 Kaministiquia River : 21 espèces dont 2 patrimoniales (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 73 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 13.8%, 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°
2,1°C
Annual rain
737mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,02
Runoff
514mm/an
PET
749mm
AET
571mm
Mean slope
2,6°
Water table
44cm
Forest
74%
Crops
1%
Urban
1%
Protected
1%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)