HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080347230
Bassin de Pukaskwa 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 : Algoma, Lake Superior, Thunder Bay
Sub-basin area
2 211,4km²
Upstream area
2 211,5km²
Discharge
48,09m³/s
Mean elev.
319m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 1293.4 km²58.3% of basin
- 894.2 km²40.3% of basin
- 30.4 km²1.4% of basin
4 intersecting protected areas
National Park
409.72 km² overlap
Provincial Park
132.33 km² overlap
Provincial Park
12.60 km² overlap
Conservation Reserve
12.41 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
387 distinct species · 1 646 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 45 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 Pukaskwa River : 34 espèces reliées par 79 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 7.6%, 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°
2,0°C
Annual rain
870mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,20
Runoff
691mm/an
PET
694mm
AET
559mm
Mean slope
2,9°
Water table
57cm
Forest
56%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
26%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)