HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080323990
Bassin de Whitesand 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
813,9km²
Upstream area
29 663,1km²
Discharge
412,18m³/s
Mean elev.
227m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Pays Plat River586 km²
- Bassin · #7080313650277 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 598.5 km²73.3% of basin
- 218.0 km²26.7% of basin
6 intersecting protected areas
National Marine Conservation Area
608.92 km² overlap
NGO/Land Trust/Agency - Fee Simple Property
9.83 km² overlap
Privately Protected Area
9.83 km² overlap
Provincial Park
5.81 km² overlap
Conservation Reserve
1.47 km² overlap
Provincial Park
0.12 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
854 distinct species · 6 129 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 44 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 Whitesand River : 33 espèces reliées par 102 interactions GloBI sur 5 types (connectance 10.8%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 11 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°
1,8°C
Annual rain
805mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,19
Runoff
601mm/an
PET
655mm
AET
538mm
Mean slope
1,6°
Water table
27cm
Forest
20%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
75%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)