HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080354490
Bassin de Saint John 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 across 2 countries : Aroostook, Kamouraska
Sub-basin area
841,1km²
Upstream area
6 310,6km²
Discharge
129,37m³/s
Mean elev.
381m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Depot Stream1633 km²
- Bassin de Saint John River719 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 628.2 km²74.5% of basin
- 215.2 km²25.5% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Land set aside Lac-de-l'Est
IUCN Not ReportedLand set aside
61.97 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
333 distinct species · 7 758 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 35 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 Saint John River : 22 espèces reliées par 92 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 13.8%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 15 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°
2,5°C
Annual rain
1 008mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,28
Runoff
611mm/an
PET
722mm
AET
615mm
Mean slope
4,1°
Water table
128cm
Forest
99%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)