HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080360130
Bassin de Rivière Saint-Maurice
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 : Le Haut-Saint-Maurice, Mékinac
Sub-basin area
475,6km²
Upstream area
33 736km²
Discharge
538,57m³/s
Mean elev.
297m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 457.2 km²95.9% of basin
- 19.7 km²4.1% of basin
3 intersecting protected areas
04151R901 Biological Refuge
IUCN IVBiological refuge
2.19 km² overlap
04151R046 Biological Refuge
IUCN IVBiological refuge
0.59 km² overlap
04151R914 Biological Refuge
IUCN IVBiological refuge
0.40 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
269 distinct species · 1 771 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 42 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 Rivière Saint-Maurice : 29 espèces reliées par 100 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 11.1%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 14 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°
3,2°C
Annual rain
1 049mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,27
Runoff
514mm/an
PET
763mm
AET
638mm
Mean slope
6,8°
Water table
171cm
Forest
94%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)