HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080406360
Bassin de Waterton Creek
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 2 administrative regions : Grey, Lake Hurron
Sub-basin area
639,7km²
Upstream area
24 338,9km²
Discharge
178,75m³/s
Mean elev.
198m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Shawanaga River818 km²
- Bassin · #70804085000 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 514.8 km²80.3% of basin
- 126.3 km²19.7% of basin
5 intersecting protected areas
Provincial Park
3.06 km² overlap
Beaver Springs Wetland
IUCN IaNGO/Land Trust/Agency - Fee Simple Property
0.20 km² overlap
Irish Ridge
IUCN IaNGO/Land Trust/Agency - Fee Simple Property
0.13 km² overlap
Stonehouse
IUCN IVNGO/Land Trust/Agency - Fee Simple Property
0.01 km² overlap
Overton
IUCN IaNGO/Land Trust/Agency - Fee Simple Property
0.00 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
547 distinct species · 3 510 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 41 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 Waterton Creek : 30 espèces dont 1 patrimoniale (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 77 interactions GloBI sur 5 types (connectance 8.9%, 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°
6,1°C
Annual rain
947mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,16
Runoff
268mm/an
PET
793mm
AET
605mm
Mean slope
0,4°
Water table
42cm
Forest
16%
Crops
16%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)