HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080380530
Bassin de Rivière Saint-François
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
5,2km²
Upstream area
15 048,2km²
Discharge
347,88m³/s
Mean elev.
1m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 1.4 km²26.8% of basin
3 intersecting protected areas
Water fowl gathering area
1.75 km² overlap
Muskrat habitat
0.45 km² overlap
Water fowl gathering area
0.19 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
217 distinct species · 4 996 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 37 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-François : 30 espèces dont 3 patrimoniales (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 78 interactions GloBI sur 3 types (connectance 11.7%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 7 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
982mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,16
Runoff
601mm/an
PET
825mm
AET
649mm
Mean slope
0,0°
Water table
2cm
Forest
34%
Crops
45%
Urban
0%
Protected
42%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)