HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #8080335260
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 3 administrative regions : Division No. 12, Division No. 13, Division No. 17
Sub-basin area
625,5km²
Upstream area
87 857,2km²
Discharge
481,41m³/s
Mean elev.
595m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Duncan Creek342 km²
- Bassin de Athabasca River222 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 370.9 km²59.0% of basin
- 177.5 km²28.2% of basin
- 80.0 km²12.7% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
48 distinct species · 127 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 20 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 : 18 espèces reliées par 17 interactions GloBI sur 2 types (connectance 8.9%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 2 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°
0,4°C
Annual rain
467mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,31
Runoff
127mm/an
PET
677mm
AET
403mm
Mean slope
2,3°
Water table
46cm
Forest
89%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)