National Park · can
Kootenay National Park Of Canada
- Area
- 1 379 km²
- IUCN cat.
- II
- Year
- 1920
Overview
- Designation
- National Park
- IUCN category
- II · Parc national
Écosystèmes préservés + récréation grand public
- Established
- 1920
- Managing authority
- Parks Canada Agency
Source : WDPA (UNEP-WCMC, World Database on Protected Areas).
Species present
2 207 distinct species · 26 124 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 Kootenay National Park Of Canada : 30 espèces dont 2 patrimoniales (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 102 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 10.8%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 14 bulles taxonomiques (cascade genre/famille GloBI, ≥3 espèces).
Comparaison sur la connectance du réseau local complet vs distribution nationale (toutes les communes françaises).
Hydrology6 basins · 5 lakes · 30 rivers
Hydrology metrics for this exact territory
Stream length here
312,5km
Lake surface here
1,06km²
Basins crossed
6
Max stream order
4
Max drainage
4 053km²
Discharge in basins
37,0m³/s
Mean precip.
648mm/an
Mean T°
-0,6°C
Moisture idx
0,05
Max snow
55%
Mean runoff
388mm/an
Mean elev. (basins)
1 839m
Watersheds crossing here
- Bassin de Kootenay Riversub-area2 705,4 km²overlap1194.87 km²87%
- Bassin de Columbia Riversub-area678,3 km²overlap104.30 km²8%
- Bassin de Kicking Horse Riversub-area1 815,3 km²overlap47.31 km²3%
- Bassin de Columbia Riversub-area120,5 km²overlap26.37 km²2%
- Bassin de Bow Riversub-area2 208,5 km²overlap4.28 km²0%
- Bassin de Columbia Riversub-area9,6 km²overlap2.19 km²0%
Lakes (5, top by area)
Rivers / streams (30, ord ≥ 4)
- Vermilion Riverord 4len here74.18 km58%total129 km
- Kootenay Riverord 6len here68.69 km12%total570 km
- Ochre Creekord 3len here12.06 km87%total14 km
- Sinclair Creekord 2len here11.87 km44%total27 km
- Verdant Creekord 2len here10.58 km66%total16 km
- Tokumm Creekord 1len here10.34 km100%total10 km
- Daer Creekord 1len here10.02 km65%total15 km
- Simpson Riverord 3len here8.85 km65%total14 km
- Helmet Creekord 2len here8.20 km100%total8 km
- Numa Creekord 2len here7.91 km45%total18 km
- Meadow Creekord 4len here7.40 km3%total223 km
- Lachine Creekord 2len here6.76 km47%total14 km
18 more river segmentssorted by Strahler order + length
- Pitts Creekord 1len here6.63 km100%total7 km
- Ottertail Riverord 3len here6.24 km25%total25 km
- Haffner Creekord 1len here5.98 km100%total6 km
- Hawk Creekord 3len here5.79 km6%total90 km
- Floe Creekord 1len here5.70 km100%total6 km
- Tumbling Creekord 1len here5.36 km74%total7 km
- Nixon Creekord 4len here5.21 km100%total5 km
- Serac Creekord 1len here4.77 km100%total5 km
- Misko Creekord 1len here4.15 km78%total5 km
- Kimpton Creekord 1len here3.87 km100%total4 km
- Wardle Creekord 1len here3.77 km100%total4 km
- Swede Creekord 1len here3.68 km61%total6 km
- Verendrye Creekord 1len here3.51 km100%total4 km
- Whitetail Creekord 2len here3.41 km37%total9 km
- John McKay Creekord 1len here3.18 km100%total3 km
- East Verdant Creekord 1len here2.76 km100%total3 km
- Columbia Riverord 8len here0.94 km0%total2971 km
- Stanley Creekord 2len here0.70 km2%total30 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
- 50.94250, -115.98772
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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.