HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #8080322320
Bassin de Sikanni Chief 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 : Peace River
Sub-basin area
1 067km²
Upstream area
2 701,5km²
Discharge
21,45m³/s
Mean elev.
1 058m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Sikanni Chief River249 km²
- Bassin de Loranger Creek134 km²
1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 1072.3 km²100.0% of basin
3 intersecting protected areas
Protected Area
7.99 km² overlap
SIKANNI CHIEF CANYON PARK
IUCN IIA - Park
4.84 km² overlap
Wildlife Habitat Areas
IUCN Not ApplicableWildlife Habitat Areas
1.57 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
375 distinct species · 1 053 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 43 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 Sikanni Chief River : 24 espèces dont 1 patrimoniale (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 111 interactions GloBI sur 5 types (connectance 11.7%, 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°
-1,3°C
Annual rain
513mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,10
Runoff
272mm/an
PET
570mm
AET
426mm
Mean slope
7,9°
Water table
159cm
Forest
81%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
1%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)