HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #8080306670
Bassin de Peace 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, Division No. 17
Sub-basin area
2 508,1km²
Upstream area
291 736,3km²
Discharge
2 154,83m³/s
Mean elev.
268m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Garden Creek1226 km²
- Bassin de Peace River735 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 2472.9 km²98.1% of basin
- 48.7 km²1.9% of basin
3 intersecting protected areas
Wood Buffalo National Park
IUCN Not ApplicableWorld Heritage Site (natural or mixed)
2472.86 km² overlap
National Park
2468.52 km² overlap
Wildland Provincial Park
11.32 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
47 distinct species · 81 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 9 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 Peace River : 6 espèces reliées par 9 interactions GloBI sur 3 types (connectance 25.0%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 3 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°
-1,6°C
Annual rain
380mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,37
Runoff
23mm/an
PET
608mm
AET
332mm
Mean slope
0,8°
Water table
25cm
Forest
69%
Crops
1%
Urban
0%
Protected
99%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)