HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #8080231560
Bassin de Deh-Cho - Mackenize 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 1 administrative regions : Fort Smith
Sub-basin area
412,9km²
Upstream area
26 522,2km²
Discharge
100,72m³/s
Mean elev.
211m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Willowlake River458 km²
- Bassin de Willowlake River416 km²
1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- Fort Smith415.4 km²100.0% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Edéhzhíe Protected Area
IUCN IbNational Wildlife Area
23.69 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
151 distinct species · 543 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 34 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 Deh-Cho - Mackenize River : 24 espèces dont 1 patrimoniale (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 62 interactions GloBI sur 3 types (connectance 9.8%, 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°
-4,4°C
Annual rain
357mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,36
Runoff
241mm/an
PET
555mm
AET
314mm
Mean slope
2,9°
Water table
44cm
Forest
65%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)