HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #8080265940
Bassin de Windy 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
158,9km²
Upstream area
34 178,9km²
Discharge
458,68m³/s
Mean elev.
486m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de South Nahanni River480 km²
- Bassin de Clausen Creek345 km²
1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- Fort Smith159.8 km²100.0% of basin
2 intersecting protected areas
National Park
159.79 km² overlap
Nahanni National Park
IUCN Not ApplicableWorld Heritage Site (natural or mixed)
68.66 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
309 distinct species · 758 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 36 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 Windy Creek : 29 espèces dont 1 patrimoniale (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 53 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 8.4%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 7 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°
-3,5°C
Annual rain
430mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,24
Runoff
138mm/an
PET
566mm
AET
369mm
Mean slope
7,2°
Water table
147cm
Forest
99%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
100%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)