HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080378930
Bassin de Rivière du Loup
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 : Nicolet-Yamaska
Sub-basin area
54,4km²
Upstream area
982 122km²
Discharge
10 995,64m³/s
Mean elev.
2m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Rivière du Loup1643 km²
- Bassin de Fleuve Saint-Laurent20 km²
1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 14.9 km²27.4% of basin
2 intersecting protected areas
Water fowl gathering area
5.46 km² overlap
Muskrat habitat
1.02 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
277 distinct species · 2 937 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 du Loup : 23 espèces reliées par 85 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 17.1%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 9 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°
5,4°C
Annual rain
988mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,17
Runoff
598mm/an
PET
822mm
AET
648mm
Mean slope
0,1°
Water table
3cm
Forest
14%
Crops
53%
Urban
0%
Protected
10%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)