HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #8080245770
Bassin de Yellowknife 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
215,5km²
Upstream area
16 155,6km²
Discharge
50,71m³/s
Mean elev.
158m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Cameron River1253 km²
- Bassin de Yellowknife River667 km²
1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- Fort Smith216.7 km²100.0% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
990 distinct species · 55 653 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 Yellowknife River : 22 espèces dont 2 patrimoniales (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 98 interactions GloBI sur 3 types (connectance 16.5%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 13 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°
-5,3°C
Annual rain
277mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,40
Runoff
93mm/an
PET
464mm
AET
251mm
Mean slope
0,6°
Water table
16cm
Forest
1%
Crops
0%
Urban
6%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)