A - Park · can
KAKWA PARK
- Area
- 1 720 km²
- IUCN cat.
- II
- Year
- 1987
Overview
- Designation
- A - Park
- IUCN category
- II · Parc national
Écosystèmes préservés + récréation grand public
- Established
- 1987
- Managing authority
- Government of British Columbia
Source : WDPA (UNEP-WCMC, World Database on Protected Areas).
Species present
466 distinct species · 2 439 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 41 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 KAKWA PARK : 26 espèces dont 2 patrimoniales (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 88 interactions GloBI sur 5 types (connectance 9.7%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 17 bulles taxonomiques (cascade genre/famille GloBI, ≥3 espèces).
Comparaison sur la connectance du réseau local complet vs distribution nationale (toutes les communes françaises).
Hydrology11 basins · 29 lakes · 22 rivers
Hydrology metrics for this exact territory
Stream length here
305,3km
Lake surface here
13,15km²
Basins crossed
11
Max stream order
4
Max drainage
2 724km²
Discharge in basins
33,8m³/s
Mean precip.
748mm/an
Mean T°
-0,1°C
Moisture idx
0,22
Max snow
62%
Mean runoff
495mm/an
Mean elev. (basins)
1 573m
Watersheds crossing here
- Bassin de Narraway Riversub-area1 658,8 km²overlap501.18 km²29%
- Bassin de Jarvis Creeksub-area349,7 km²overlap314.60 km²18%
- Bassin de Kakwa Riversub-area570,7 km²overlap306.40 km²18%
- Bassin de McGregor Riversub-area439,6 km²overlap296.27 km²17%
- Bassin de Buchanan Creeksub-area261,8 km²overlap211.93 km²12%
- Bassin de Idol Creeksub-area232,9 km²overlap36.89 km²2%
- Bassin de Sheep Creeksub-area910,3 km²overlap25.70 km²1%
- Bassin de Wapiti Riversub-area2 724 km²overlap24.28 km²1%
- Bassin de Captain Creeksub-area2 073,6 km²overlap1.19 km²0%
2 more basinssorted by overlap
Lakes (29, top by area)
- Kakwa Lakearea3,7 km²avg depth10.3 m
- Cecilia Lakearea2,2 km²avg depth16.9 m
- Jarvis Lakesarea1 km²avg depth6.2 m
- Lac 841265area0,8 km²avg depth7.2 m
- Lac 842393area0,6 km²avg depth8.3 m
- Lac 846607area0,4 km²avg depth7.4 m
- Lac 847992area0,4 km²avg depth4.5 m
- Lac 842649area0,3 km²avg depth8.8 m
- Lac 848820area0,3 km²avg depth7.1 m
20 more lakes
- Lac 843621area0,3 km²avg depth3.9 m
- Lac 842118area0,3 km²avg depth8.0 m
- Lac 841681area0,3 km²avg depth9.6 m
- Lac 848072area0,3 km²avg depth5.2 m
- Lac 848832area0,2 km²avg depth8.9 m
- Lac 839197area0,2 km²avg depth7.0 m
- Lac 843642area0,2 km²avg depth3.9 m
- Lac 852741area0,2 km²avg depth4.6 m
- Lac 848534area0,2 km²avg depth4.1 m
- Lac 842224area0,2 km²avg depth7.9 m
- Lac 846342area0,2 km²avg depth4.5 m
- Lac 849890area0,2 km²avg depth9.8 m
- Lac 847271area0,2 km²avg depth3.4 m
- Lac 847453area0,1 km²avg depth5.4 m
- Lac 852976area0,1 km²avg depth5.1 m
- Lac 841998area0,1 km²avg depth6.6 m
- Lac 844746area0,1 km²avg depth7.1 m
- Lac 843661area0,1 km²avg depth3.3 m
- Lac 841368area0,1 km²avg depth6.4 m
- Lac 841383area0,1 km²avg depth8.2 m
Rivers / streams (22, ord ≥ 4)
- McGregor Riverord 6len here60.37 km17%total346 km
- Narraway Riverord 4len here53.04 km37%total142 km
- Kakwa Riverord 4len here31.67 km9%total340 km
- Moonias Creekord 3len here24.51 km100%total24 km
- Buchanan Creekord 2len here19.11 km70%total27 km
- Jarvis Creekord 3len here19.02 km100%total19 km
- Kitchi Creekord 2len here14.97 km100%total15 km
- Cecilia Creekord 2len here14.23 km100%total14 km
- Saddle Creekord 2len here10.23 km100%total10 km
- Edgegrain Creekord 2len here8.40 km100%total8 km
- Torrens Riverord 3len here8.30 km26%total31 km
- Dimsdale Creekord 2len here7.01 km100%total7 km
10 more river segmentssorted by Strahler order + length
- Barbara Creekord 3len here4.25 km100%total4 km
- Bastille Creekord 2len here4.13 km29%total14 km
- Belcourt Creekord 2len here4.03 km8%total51 km
- Sheep Creekord 3len here3.98 km2%total198 km
- Niven Creekord 2len here3.96 km100%total4 km
- Hanington Creekord 1len here3.65 km100%total4 km
- Gorman Creekord 1len here3.63 km100%total4 km
- Mariel Creekord 2len here3.58 km100%total4 km
- La Glace Creekord 1len here3.24 km100%total3 km
- Revolution Creekord 3len here≈ tangenttotal10 km
Live spatial overlap (cached after first hit) · HydroBASINS lev08 × HydroLAKES × HydroRIVERS v10
Location
Fond cartographique : OpenFreeMap · © OpenStreetMap contributors · Géométrie : nos sources (GADM/HydroBASINS/HydroLAKES/HydroRIVERS/WDPA)
- Centroid
- 54.04351, -120.32781
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Species observed (Phase 2)
Listing species observed within this protected area requires the GBIF v2 partition × WDPA spatial overlay matview. Computing infrastructure pending.