HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #8080258800
Bassin de Clearwater 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 1 administrative regions : Fort Smith
Sub-basin area
2 273,1km²
Upstream area
2 273,1km²
Discharge
26,44m³/s
Mean elev.
1 336m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- Fort Smith2286.7 km²100.0% of basin
2 intersecting protected areas
National Park
2266.13 km² overlap
Nahanni National Park
IUCN Not ApplicableWorld Heritage Site (natural or mixed)
317.53 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
65 distinct species · 90 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 12 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 Clearwater Creek : 10 espèces reliées par 18 interactions GloBI sur 3 types (connectance 27.3%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 2 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°
-7,5°C
Annual rain
491mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,11
Runoff
364mm/an
PET
438mm
AET
350mm
Mean slope
20,3°
Water table
423cm
Forest
7%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
99%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)