HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080363510
Bassin de Saint Louis 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 5 administrative regions : Carlton, Douglas, Lake Superior, Saint Louis
Sub-basin area
1 355,1km²
Upstream area
9 935,8km²
Discharge
151,32m³/s
Mean elev.
331m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Cloquet River2030 km²
- Bassin de Stoney Brook954 km²
5 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 708.8 km²52.2% of basin
- 343.4 km²25.3% of basin
- Douglas185.2 km²13.6% of basin
- Lake Superior116.1 km²8.5% of basin
- Lake Superior5.3 km²0.4% of basin
22 intersecting protected areas
Marine Protected Area
56.14 km² overlap
Magney-Snivey
IUCN VNatural Area
6.88 km² overlap
Hartley Park, Hartley
IUCN VNature Center
2.51 km² overlap
Aquatic Management Area
2.06 km² overlap
Hawk Ridge
IUCN VLocal Conservation Area
1.59 km² overlap
Aquatic Management Area
1.53 km² overlap
Natural Area
0.68 km² overlap
Natural Area
0.21 km² overlap
Aquatic Management Area
0.19 km² overlap
13 more protected areassorted by overlap area
Aquatic Management Area
0.17 km² overlap
Aquatic Management Area
0.15 km² overlap
Aquatic Management Area
0.12 km² overlap
Hearding Island
IUCN VState Wildlife Management Area
0.12 km² overlap
Aquatic Management Area
0.07 km² overlap
Amity Creek
IUCN VPark
0.05 km² overlap
Aquatic Management Area
0.04 km² overlap
Aquatic Management Area
0.03 km² overlap
Aquatic Management Area
0.03 km² overlap
Aquatic Management Area
0.02 km² overlap
Interstate Island
IUCN VState Wildlife Management Area
0.02 km² overlap
Aquatic Management Area
0.02 km² overlap
Aquatic Management Area
0.00 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
4 276 distinct species · 1 375 277 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 28 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 Louis River : 16 espèces dont 1 patrimoniale (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 90 interactions GloBI sur 3 types (connectance 23.8%, 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°
3,9°C
Annual rain
742mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,07
Runoff
666mm/an
PET
796mm
AET
621mm
Mean slope
1,5°
Water table
35cm
Forest
76%
Crops
8%
Urban
9%
Protected
3%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)