HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080364550
Bassin de Rivière Chaudière
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 1 administrative regions : Les Chutes-de-la-Chaudière
Sub-basin area
80,8km²
Upstream area
6 598,7km²
Discharge
146,43m³/s
Mean elev.
74m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Rivière Chaudière955 km²
- Bassin de Rivière Beaurivage694 km²
1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 80.9 km²99.9% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Water fowl gathering area
0.01 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
1 335 distinct species · 45 638 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 33 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 Chaudière : 20 espèces reliées par 92 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 17.4%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 13 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°
4,6°C
Annual rain
1 109mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,31
Runoff
809mm/an
PET
766mm
AET
663mm
Mean slope
1,1°
Water table
23cm
Forest
45%
Crops
13%
Urban
36%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)