HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #8080345070
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 : Columbia-Shuswap, Division No. 15, Fraser-Fort George
Sub-basin area
2 366,7km²
Upstream area
3 922,6km²
Discharge
45,72m³/s
Mean elev.
1 904m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Athabasca River813 km²
- Bassin de Sunwapta River743 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 2349.8 km²98.9% of basin
- 14.8 km²0.6% of basin
- 11.6 km²0.5% of basin
5 intersecting protected areas
Canadian Rocky Mountain Parks
IUCN Not ApplicableWorld Heritage Site (natural or mixed)
2372.20 km² overlap
National Park
2359.60 km² overlap
MOUNT ROBSON PARK
IUCN IIA - Park
10.59 km² overlap
HAMBER PARK
IUCN IIA - Park
3.29 km² overlap
Protected Area
0.05 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
3 474 distinct species · 101 536 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 : 35 espèces dont 1 patrimoniale (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 93 interactions GloBI sur 5 types (connectance 9.4%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 10 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°
-1,2°C
Annual rain
627mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,10
Runoff
476mm/an
PET
558mm
AET
436mm
Mean slope
18,7°
Water table
507cm
Forest
42%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
100%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)