HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080327380
Bassin de Canada-US Great Lakes maritime boundary (Superior-Huron)
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 3 administrative regions across 2 countries : Keweenaw, Lake Superior
Sub-basin area
271km²
Upstream area
3 909,3km²
Discharge
62,91m³/s
Mean elev.
192m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 185.0 km²68.1% of basin
- 43.6 km²16.1% of basin
- 43.1 km²15.9% of basin
4 intersecting protected areas
Marine Protected Area
161.20 km² overlap
Isle Royale
IUCN IINational Park
160.43 km² overlap
Isle Royale
IUCN IbWilderness Area
43.45 km² overlap
National Marine Conservation Area
19.93 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
426 distinct species · 957 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 46 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 Canada-US Great Lakes maritime boundary (Superior-Huron) : 36 espèces dont 1 patrimoniale (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 87 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 8.0%, 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°
3,0°C
Annual rain
748mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,00
Runoff
544mm/an
PET
749mm
AET
564mm
Mean slope
0,8°
Water table
16cm
Forest
14%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
68%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)