National Marine Conservation Area · can
Lake Superior National Marine Conservation Area Of Canada
- Area
- 10 885 km²
- IUCN cat.
- VI
- Year
- 2007
Overview
- Designation
- National Marine Conservation Area
- IUCN category
- VI · Aire protégée avec utilisation durable
Conservation + utilisation durable des ressources
- Established
- 2007
- Managing authority
- Parks Canada Agency
Source : WDPA (UNEP-WCMC, World Database on Protected Areas).
Species present
2 484 distinct species · 113 769 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 36 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 Lake Superior National Marine Conservation Area Of Canada : 21 espèces reliées par 100 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 15.9%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 15 bulles taxonomiques (cascade genre/famille GloBI, ≥3 espèces).
Comparaison sur la connectance du réseau local complet vs distribution nationale (toutes les communes françaises).
Hydrology35 basins · 2 lakes · 35 rivers
Hydrology metrics for this exact territory
Stream length here
291,8km
Lake surface here
10 791,73km²
Basins crossed
35
Max stream order
6
Max drainage
122 029km²
Discharge in basins
3 817,1m³/s
Mean precip.
792mm/an
Mean T°
2,1°C
Moisture idx
0,14
Max snow
48%
Mean runoff
596mm/an
Mean elev. (basins)
215m
Watersheds crossing here
- Bassin de Wickham Creeksub-area1 469,3 km²overlap1353.25 km²12%
- Basin #37870sub-area1 113,2 km²overlap1086.97 km²10%
- Bassin de Brook Riversub-area1 130,6 km²overlap920.45 km²8%
- Bassin de Canada-US Great Lakes maritime boundary (Superior-Huron)sub-area1 051,6 km²overlap801.04 km²7%
- Bassin de Aguasabon Riversub-area1 696,7 km²overlap699.47 km²6%
- Bassin de Steel Riversub-area2 202,3 km²overlap621.52 km²6%
- Bassin de Whitesand Riversub-area813,9 km²overlap608.92 km²6%
- Bassin de Black Sturgeon Riversub-area1 252,2 km²overlap575.90 km²5%
- Basin #31850sub-area554,8 km²overlap556.44 km²5%
26 more basinssorted by overlap
- Bassin de Worthington Creeksub-area623,1 km²overlap535.58 km²5%
- Basin #25370sub-area649,9 km²overlap522.79 km²5%
- Bassin de Canada-US Great Lakes maritime boundary (Superior-Huron)sub-area474 km²overlap412.27 km²4%
- Bassin de Jackpine Riversub-area1 141,5 km²overlap363.28 km²3%
- Bassin de Canada-US Great Lakes maritime boundary (Superior-Huron)sub-area332,8 km²overlap326.44 km²3%
- Bassin de Sturgeon Riversub-area320,8 km²overlap228.95 km²2%
- Basin #13650sub-area276,7 km²overlap205.75 km²2%
- Bassin de Canada-US Great Lakes maritime boundary (Superior-Huron)sub-area691 km²overlap196.37 km²2%
- Bassin de Walkinshaw Creeksub-area1 223,1 km²overlap160.53 km²1%
- Bassin de Black Sturgeon Riversub-area1 053,5 km²overlap109.89 km²1%
- Bassin de Pays Plat Riversub-area586 km²overlap97.90 km²1%
- Bassin de Canada-US Great Lakes maritime boundary (Superior-Huron)sub-area278,9 km²overlap92.41 km²1%
- Bassin de Canada-US Great Lakes maritime boundary (Superior-Huron)sub-area356,1 km²overlap81.89 km²1%
- Bassin de Nipigon Riversub-area1 180 km²overlap49.05 km²0%
- Bassin de Canada-US Great Lakes maritime boundary (Superior-Huron)sub-area230,6 km²overlap45.49 km²0%
- Bassin de Canada-US Great Lakes maritime boundary (Superior-Huron)sub-area147,2 km²overlap40.96 km²0%
- Bassin de Canada-US Great Lakes maritime boundary (Superior-Huron)sub-area191,3 km²overlap39.14 km²0%
- Bassin de Canada-US Great Lakes maritime boundary (Superior-Huron)sub-area166,4 km²overlap34.69 km²0%
- Basin #38370sub-area53,6 km²overlap31.57 km²0%
- Bassin de Wolf Riversub-area649,9 km²overlap25.61 km²0%
- Bassin de Jackfish Riversub-area499,5 km²overlap20.52 km²0%
- Bassin de Canada-US Great Lakes maritime boundary (Superior-Huron)sub-area271 km²overlap19.93 km²0%
- Basin #39270sub-area55,9 km²overlap10.09 km²0%
- Bassin de Gravel Riversub-area700,2 km²overlap9.97 km²0%
- Basin #36780sub-area158,8 km²overlap0.33 km²0%
- Bassin de Prairie Riversub-area1 286,8 km²overlap0.03 km²0%
Lakes (2, top by area)
Rivers / streams (35, ord ≥ 4)
- Black Sturgeon Riverord 6len here95.57 km48%total201 km
- Canada-US Great Lakes maritime boundary (Superior-Huron)ord 6len here86.39 km31%total281 km
- Nipigon Riverord 6len here14.95 km18%total85 km
- Wolf Riverord 5len here10.28 km4%total274 km
- Jackfish Riverord 3len here10.22 km12%total86 km
- Sturgeon Riverord 5len here10.00 km2%total598 km
- Pays Plat Riverord 4len here8.14 km19%total43 km
- Mazukama Creekord 2len here5.74 km100%total6 km
- MacInnes Creekord 1len here5.50 km62%total9 km
- Ruby Creekord 2len here4.55 km21%total21 km
- Aguasabon Riverord 4len here3.62 km3%total105 km
- Steel Riverord 4len here3.06 km2%total190 km
23 more river segmentssorted by Strahler order + length
- Hewitson Riverord 2len here2.92 km52%total6 km
- Nishin Creekord 1len here2.91 km49%total6 km
- Wickham Creekord 1len here2.87 km46%total6 km
- Worthington Creekord 1len here2.47 km38%total7 km
- Fire Hill Creekord 1len here2.46 km60%total4 km
- Gravel Riverord 4len here2.17 km2%total89 km
- Welch Creekord 1len here2.14 km11%total19 km
- Little Cypress Riverord 1len here2.08 km56%total4 km
- Pearl Riverord 2len here2.06 km17%total12 km
- Coldwater Creekord 3len here1.87 km4%total43 km
- Jackpine Riverord 4len here1.51 km2%total76 km
- North Trout Creekord 2len here1.21 km9%total13 km
- Stillwater Creekord 2len here1.08 km6%total17 km
- Brook Riverord 2len here0.96 km11%total9 km
- Joe Creekord 2len here0.84 km2%total47 km
- Portage Creekord 3len here0.75 km1%total70 km
- Sibley Creekord 2len here0.75 km9%total8 km
- Morrow Creekord 1len here0.63 km8%total8 km
- Ozone Creekord 2len here0.54 km4%total12 km
- Dublin Creekord 1len here0.48 km5%total9 km
- Todesco Creekord 1len here0.47 km9%total5 km
- Blind Creekord 2len here0.32 km5%total6 km
- McLean's Creekord 2len here0.27 km4%total6 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
- 48.37046, -87.74394
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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.