HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080363050
Bassin de Rivière Saint-Jean / 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 3 administrative regions across 2 countries : Aroostook, Madawaska, Victoria
Sub-basin area
2 602,8km²
Upstream area
22 636,7km²
Discharge
447,86m³/s
Mean elev.
249m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Rivière Verte1162 km²
- Bassin de Rivière Iroquois398 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 1211.8 km²46.4% of basin
- Madawaska1001.3 km²38.4% of basin
- 396.9 km²15.2% of basin
15 intersecting protected areas
Cameron Mountain
IUCN Not ApplicablePrivate Ecologically Significant Area
29.78 km² overlap
Grand River Oxbows
IUCN Not ApplicablePrivate Ecologically Significant Area
16.47 km² overlap
Quisibis River
IUCN IIProtected Natural Area
7.08 km² overlap
4011600
IUCN IINature Legacy protected area
6.44 km² overlap
Burgess Settlement
IUCN IIProtected Natural Area
4.15 km² overlap
Martial Brook
IUCN IbProtected Natural Area
3.00 km² overlap
4011500
IUCN IINature Legacy protected area
2.73 km² overlap
4011800
IUCN IINature Legacy protected area
2.54 km² overlap
4011700
IUCN IINature Legacy protected area
2.11 km² overlap
6 more protected areassorted by overlap area
Quisibis Mountain
IUCN IIProtected Natural Area
1.57 km² overlap
4049000
IUCN IINature Legacy protected area
1.44 km² overlap
4011900
IUCN IINature Legacy protected area
0.91 km² overlap
McCoy Brook
IUCN IbProtected Natural Area
0.60 km² overlap
4024500
IUCN IINature Legacy protected area
0.57 km² overlap
65152886
IUCN IbNature Preserve
0.02 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
1 579 distinct species · 23 628 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 31 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-Jean / Saint John River : 23 espèces reliées par 77 interactions GloBI sur 3 types (connectance 16.6%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 8 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°
3,0°C
Annual rain
1 010mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,26
Runoff
686mm/an
PET
744mm
AET
621mm
Mean slope
3,4°
Water table
92cm
Forest
89%
Crops
5%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)