HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080345050
Bassin de Swallow 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 3 administrative regions across 2 countries : Lake Superior, Thunder Bay
Sub-basin area
1 154,6km²
Upstream area
155 964,2km²
Discharge
1 836,51m³/s
Mean elev.
242m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Oiseau Creek974 km²
- Bassin · #708034369043 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 818.5 km²70.7% of basin
- 339.0 km²29.3% of basin
- 0.4 km²0.0% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
National Park
337.53 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
232 distinct species · 615 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 50 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 Swallow River : 34 espèces reliées par 107 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 8.7%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 16 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°
2,4°C
Annual rain
843mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,19
Runoff
643mm/an
PET
685mm
AET
552mm
Mean slope
1,9°
Water table
26cm
Forest
30%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
29%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)