HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #8080337700
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 2 administrative regions : Division No. 13, Division No. 17
Sub-basin area
221,8km²
Upstream area
86 890,2km²
Discharge
477,4m³/s
Mean elev.
600m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Calling River1827 km²
- Bassin de Athabasca River212 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 158.1 km²71.0% of basin
- 64.7 km²29.0% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
71 distinct species · 261 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 Athabasca River : 25 espèces reliées par 34 interactions GloBI sur 3 types (connectance 7.8%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 5 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°
0,7°C
Annual rain
466mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,32
Runoff
118mm/an
PET
685mm
AET
402mm
Mean slope
3,0°
Water table
67cm
Forest
89%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)