HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #8080329480
Bassin de Athabasca 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. 16
Sub-basin area
306,4km²
Upstream area
96 516,3km²
Discharge
511,85m³/s
Mean elev.
490m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Buffalo Creek657 km²
- Bassin de Athabasca River162 km²
1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 307.9 km²100.0% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Wildland Provincial Park
52.24 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
39 distinct species · 100 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 17 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 Athabasca River : 17 espèces reliées par 12 interactions GloBI sur 3 types (connectance 8.8%, filtre Serrano α=0.2).
Comparaison sur la connectance du réseau local complet vs distribution nationale (toutes les communes françaises).
Hydroclimate (BasinATLAS lev08)
Mean T°
-0,3°C
Annual rain
454mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,31
Runoff
57mm/an
PET
663mm
AET
392mm
Mean slope
2,9°
Water table
103cm
Forest
100%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
19%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)