World Heritage Site (natural or mixed) · can
Nahanni National Park
- Area
- 4 853 km²
- IUCN cat.
- Not Applicable
- Year
- 1978
Overview
- Designation
- World Heritage Site (natural or mixed)
- Established
- 1978
- Managing authority
- Not Reported
Source : WDPA (UNEP-WCMC, World Database on Protected Areas).
Species present
2 215 distinct species · 22 123 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 30 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 Nahanni National Park : 24 espèces reliées par 44 interactions GloBI sur 3 types (connectance 10.1%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 6 bulles taxonomiques (cascade genre/famille GloBI, ≥3 espèces).
Comparaison sur la connectance du réseau local complet vs distribution nationale (toutes les communes françaises).
Hydrology28 basins · 23 lakes · 19 rivers
Hydrology metrics for this exact territory
Stream length here
675,5km
Lake surface here
8,94km²
Basins crossed
28
Max stream order
6
Max drainage
36 690km²
Discharge in basins
1 962,7m³/s
Mean precip.
487mm/an
Mean T°
-6,0°C
Moisture idx
0,02
Max snow
64%
Mean runoff
331mm/an
Mean elev. (basins)
1 058m
Watersheds crossing here
- Bassin de South Nahanni Riversub-area998,5 km²overlap884.51 km²18%
- Bassin de South Nahanni Riversub-area1 432,4 km²overlap791.44 km²16%
- Bassin de South Nahanni Riversub-area2 158,9 km²overlap648.49 km²13%
- Bassin de Clearwater Creeksub-area2 273,1 km²overlap317.53 km²7%
- Bassin de Flat Riversub-area357,4 km²overlap311.89 km²6%
- Bassin de South Nahanni Riversub-area479,7 km²overlap299.81 km²6%
- Bassin de Flat Riversub-area351,1 km²overlap252.51 km²5%
- Bassin de Flat Riversub-area191,8 km²overlap192.95 km²4%
- Bassin de Flat Riversub-area600,6 km²overlap180.47 km²4%
19 more basinssorted by overlap
- Bassin de Wrigley Creeksub-area1 137 km²overlap155.86 km²3%
- Bassin de Rabbitkettle Riversub-area831,2 km²overlap137.98 km²3%
- Bassin de Caribou Riversub-area3 602,9 km²overlap84.90 km²2%
- Bassin de South Nahanni Riversub-area82,7 km²overlap83.15 km²2%
- Bassin de Windy Creeksub-area158,9 km²overlap68.66 km²1%
- Bassin de South Nahanni Riversub-area328,8 km²overlap67.14 km²1%
- Basin #60340sub-area211 km²overlap64.82 km²1%
- Bassin de Jackfish Riversub-area1 006,6 km²overlap59.68 km²1%
- Bassin de Prairie Creeksub-area741,2 km²overlap57.67 km²1%
- Bassin de South Nahanni Riversub-area870,3 km²overlap53.14 km²1%
- Bassin de South Nahanni Riversub-area655,1 km²overlap41.63 km²1%
- Bassin de South Nahanni Riversub-area305,7 km²overlap34.70 km²1%
- Bassin de Clausen Creeksub-area345,3 km²overlap28.36 km²1%
- Bassin de South Nahanni Riversub-area556 km²overlap16.57 km²0%
- Bassin de South Nahanni Riversub-area13,9 km²overlap7.88 km²0%
- Bassin de Irvine Creeksub-area568,9 km²overlap5.18 km²0%
- Bassin de Flat Riversub-area2 078,2 km²overlap3.51 km²0%
- Bassin de Flood Creeksub-area492,6 km²overlap2.07 km²0%
- Bassin de South Nahanni Riversub-area1 361,5 km²overlap1.28 km²0%
Lakes (23, top by area)
- Yohin Lakearea3,4 km²avg depth4.7 m
- Hole in the Wall Lakearea1,1 km²avg depth9.2 m
- Lac 579174area0,6 km²avg depth8.5 m
- Lac 593422area0,6 km²avg depth7.9 m
- Lac 572052area0,6 km²avg depth5.1 m
- Lac 576856area0,4 km²avg depth5.1 m
- Lac 588230area0,2 km²avg depth4.6 m
- Lac 576327area0,2 km²avg depth5.8 m
- Lac 579012area0,2 km²avg depth7.5 m
14 more lakes
- Lac 585730area0,2 km²avg depth8.5 m
- Lac 571556area0,2 km²avg depth10.3 m
- Lac 594805area0,2 km²avg depth7.6 m
- Lac 579969area0,2 km²avg depth4.6 m
- Lac 578723area0,2 km²avg depth3.8 m
- Lac 577099area0,2 km²avg depth4.9 m
- Lac 575179area0,2 km²avg depth4.6 m
- Lac 583284area0,1 km²avg depth5.3 m
- Lac 576943area0,1 km²avg depth6.0 m
- Lac 571810area0,1 km²avg depth4.5 m
- Lac 577493area0,1 km²avg depth8.6 m
- Lac 577441area0,1 km²avg depth7.7 m
- Lac 580210area0,1 km²avg depth1.8 m
- Lac 599795area0,1 km²avg depth3.9 m
Rivers / streams (19, ord ≥ 4)
- South Nahanni Riverord 6len here388.16 km47%total832 km
- Flat Riverord 5len here134.61 km41%total332 km
- Hell Roaring Creekord 3len here20.55 km61%total34 km
- Jackfish Riverord 4len here14.75 km9%total168 km
- Hole in the Wall Creekord 4len here14.02 km100%total14 km
- Ram Creekord 2len here13.74 km48%total29 km
- Windy Creekord 6len here13.32 km32%total42 km
- Caribou Riverord 7len here12.04 km3%total405 km
- McLeod Creekord 2len here11.99 km77%total16 km
- Vera Creekord 3len here11.97 km24%total50 km
- Marengo Creekord 1len here11.43 km100%total11 km
- Lafferty Creekord 6len here7.71 km11%total73 km
7 more river segmentssorted by Strahler order + length
- Mary Riverord 4len here6.34 km7%total90 km
- Pass Creekord 2len here5.94 km11%total52 km
- Rabbitkettle Riverord 4len here4.75 km100%total5 km
- Moose Creekord 3len here1.49 km3%total54 km
- Irvine Creekord 4len here1.15 km3%total36 km
- Clausen Creekord 3len here1.07 km4%total30 km
- Clearwater Creekord 3len here0.43 km0%total189 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
- 61.58217, -125.83832
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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.