HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080412600
Bassin de Missisquoi 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 3 administrative regions across 2 countries : Brome-Missisquoi, Franklin, Le Haut-Richelieu
Sub-basin area
157,5km²
Upstream area
2 210,3km²
Discharge
53,11m³/s
Mean elev.
95m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Black Creek310 km²
- Bassin de Missisquoi River281 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- Franklin157.4 km²99.7% of basin
- 0.5 km²0.3% of basin
- 0.0 km²0.0% of basin
5 intersecting protected areas
Missisquoi
IUCN IVNational Wildlife Refuge
16.87 km² overlap
Maquam Bog Rna
IUCN IaResearch Natural Area
2.82 km² overlap
Missisquoi Propo
IUCN IbProposed Wilderness
1.67 km² overlap
Shad Island Rna
IUCN IaResearch Natural Area
0.32 km² overlap
Missisquoi
IUCN VNational Wildlife Refuge
0.00 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
1 309 distinct species · 27 922 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 39 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 Missisquoi River : 28 espèces dont 1 patrimoniale (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 98 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 12.6%, 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°
6,4°C
Annual rain
934mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,08
Runoff
671mm/an
PET
859mm
AET
679mm
Mean slope
2,4°
Water table
104cm
Forest
88%
Crops
31%
Urban
0%
Protected
10%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)