HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080382340
Bassin de Whitefish 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 4 administrative regions : Greater Sudbury, Lake Hurron, Manitoulin, Sudbury
Sub-basin area
621,3km²
Upstream area
1 453,3km²
Discharge
8,86m³/s
Mean elev.
223m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Junction Creek585 km²
- Bassin de Bevin Creek247 km²
4 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 332.4 km²53.4% of basin
- 139.7 km²22.4% of basin
- 122.8 km²19.7% of basin
- 28.0 km²4.5% of basin
4 intersecting protected areas
Provincial Park
106.86 km² overlap
Provincial Park
60.92 km² overlap
Conservation Reserve
30.11 km² overlap
Provincial Park
27.85 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
1 006 distinct species · 6 916 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 46 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 Whitefish River : 36 espèces reliées par 99 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 9.6%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 10 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°
4,3°C
Annual rain
844mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,10
Runoff
201mm/an
PET
756mm
AET
579mm
Mean slope
2,9°
Water table
133cm
Forest
60%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
36%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)