HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080385160
Bassin de Rivière Yamaska
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 : Acton, Drummond, La Vallée-du-Richelieu, Le Bas-Richelieu, Les Maskoutains
Sub-basin area
918km²
Upstream area
4 335,5km²
Discharge
98,08m³/s
Mean elev.
40m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Rivière Yamaska1655 km²
- Bassin de Rivière Noire469 km²
5 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 802.7 km²87.2% of basin
- 50.4 km²5.5% of basin
- 42.2 km²4.6% of basin
- 20.7 km²2.3% of basin
- 4.1 km²0.4% of basin
4 intersecting protected areas
Bois-des-Patriotes (Par. Mathieu-Nord) Nature Reserve
IUCN Not ReportedRecognized nature reserve
0.39 km² overlap
Bois-des-Patriotes Nature Reserve
IUCN Not ReportedRecognized nature reserve
0.35 km² overlap
Boisé-des-Blouin Nature Reserve
IUCN Not ReportedRecognized nature reserve
0.09 km² overlap
Recognized nature reserve
0.04 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
1 975 distinct species · 367 145 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 36 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 Yamaska : 24 espèces reliées par 83 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 13.2%, 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°
5,7°C
Annual rain
991mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,16
Runoff
652mm/an
PET
833mm
AET
660mm
Mean slope
0,3°
Water table
14cm
Forest
27%
Crops
73%
Urban
4%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)