HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #8080289590
Bassin de Slave 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 2 administrative regions : Division No. 16, Fort Smith
Sub-basin area
477,6km²
Upstream area
599 575,3km²
Discharge
3 438,99m³/s
Mean elev.
202m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Slave River2200 km²
- Bassin de Dog River2116 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 281.0 km²58.5% of basin
- Fort Smith199.3 km²41.5% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
600 distinct species · 3 467 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 45 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 Slave River : 26 espèces reliées par 142 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 13.7%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 20 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°
-3,0°C
Annual rain
350mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,40
Runoff
20mm/an
PET
579mm
AET
308mm
Mean slope
1,4°
Water table
31cm
Forest
51%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)