HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080322520
Bassin de Kootenai 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 1 administrative regions : Lincoln
Sub-basin area
881,7km²
Upstream area
23 440,9km²
Discharge
319,92m³/s
Mean elev.
1 247m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Little North Fork357 km²
- Bassin de Sutton Creek206 km²
1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- Lincoln884.4 km²100.0% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Big Creek
IUCN IaResearch Natural Area
0.17 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
490 distinct species · 3 325 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 42 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 Kootenai River : 30 espèces reliées par 75 interactions GloBI sur 5 types (connectance 8.7%, 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°
4,2°C
Annual rain
664mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,22
Runoff
343mm/an
PET
870mm
AET
514mm
Mean slope
14,8°
Water table
605cm
Forest
82%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)