HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #8080265410
Bassin de South Nahanni 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
2 158,9km²
Upstream area
29 478,8km²
Discharge
432,1m³/s
Mean elev.
967m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Wrigley Creek1137 km²
- Bassin de Flat River357 km²
1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- Fort Smith2171.7 km²100.0% of basin
2 intersecting protected areas
National Park
2160.29 km² overlap
Nahanni National Park
IUCN Not ApplicableWorld Heritage Site (natural or mixed)
648.49 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
414 distinct species · 973 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 38 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 South Nahanni River : 25 espèces dont 1 patrimoniale (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 101 interactions GloBI sur 5 types (connectance 12.3%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 16 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°
-5,9°C
Annual rain
467mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,04
Runoff
188mm/an
PET
490mm
AET
371mm
Mean slope
21,1°
Water table
424cm
Forest
33%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
99%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)