HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #8080315160
Bassin de Caribou 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 : Division No. 17
Sub-basin area
2 362,2km²
Upstream area
237 593,4km²
Discharge
2 027,11m³/s
Mean elev.
474m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Peace River1264 km²
- Bassin de Peace River64 km²
1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 2374.7 km²100.0% of basin
2 intersecting protected areas
Wildland Provincial Park
86.21 km² overlap
Caribou River Natural Area
IUCN IIINatural Area
1.76 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
77 distinct species · 138 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 30 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 Caribou River : 24 espèces reliées par 51 interactions GloBI sur 3 types (connectance 11.7%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 6 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
405mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,33
Runoff
35mm/an
PET
606mm
AET
350mm
Mean slope
1,3°
Water table
17cm
Forest
63%
Crops
5%
Urban
0%
Protected
4%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)