HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #8080340890
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. 13
Sub-basin area
99,3km²
Upstream area
73 899,6km²
Discharge
436,46m³/s
Mean elev.
587m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Baptiste Creek349 km²
- Bassin de Athabasca River122 km²
1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 99.7 km²100.0% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
205 distinct species · 291 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 45 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 : 30 espèces reliées par 112 interactions GloBI sur 5 types (connectance 10.8%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 16 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°
2,0°C
Annual rain
476mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,30
Runoff
56mm/an
PET
684mm
AET
410mm
Mean slope
1,6°
Water table
45cm
Forest
12%
Crops
41%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)