HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080340600
Bassin de Columbia 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 : Chelan, Douglas
Sub-basin area
316,7km²
Upstream area
227 257,5km²
Discharge
3 355,15m³/s
Mean elev.
606m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Stehekin River2411 km²
- Bassin de Columbia River339 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 170.8 km²53.8% of basin
- Douglas146.8 km²46.2% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Wildlife Area Complex
37.99 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
484 distinct species · 16 970 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 33 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 Columbia River : 22 espèces dont 1 patrimoniale (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 74 interactions GloBI sur 3 types (connectance 14.0%, 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°
8,1°C
Annual rain
337mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,65
Runoff
293mm/an
PET
967mm
AET
289mm
Mean slope
13,2°
Water table
795cm
Forest
41%
Crops
25%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)