Provincial Park · can
Peter Lougheed Provincial Park
- Area
- 514 km²
- IUCN cat.
- II
- Year
- 1977
Overview
- Designation
- Provincial Park
- IUCN category
- II · Parc national
Écosystèmes préservés + récréation grand public
- Established
- 1977
- Managing authority
- Parks Division, Alberta Forestry and Parks
Source : WDPA (UNEP-WCMC, World Database on Protected Areas).
Species present
1 397 distinct species · 36 702 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 38 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 Peter Lougheed Provincial Park : 23 espèces dont 3 patrimoniales (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 84 interactions GloBI sur 5 types (connectance 11.9%, 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).
Hydrology8 basins · 10 lakes · 14 rivers
Hydrology metrics for this exact territory
Stream length here
97,3km
Lake surface here
16,02km²
Basins crossed
8
Max stream order
3
Max drainage
1 593km²
Discharge in basins
4,0m³/s
Mean precip.
635mm/an
Mean T°
-1,2°C
Moisture idx
0,06
Max snow
54%
Mean runoff
289mm/an
Mean elev. (basins)
2 050m
Watersheds crossing here
- Bassin de Kananaskis Riversub-area955,8 km²overlap463.54 km²90%
- Bassin de Spray Riversub-area736,3 km²overlap27.21 km²5%
- Bassin de Highwood Riversub-area500,1 km²overlap15.81 km²3%
- Bassin de Palliser Riversub-area730,3 km²overlap5.24 km²1%
- Bassin de Elk Riversub-area491,7 km²overlap1.33 km²0%
- Bassin de Elbow Riversub-area1 193,1 km²overlap1.02 km²0%
- Bassin de Sheep Riversub-area1 593,2 km²overlap0.32 km²0%
- Bassin de White Riversub-area1 462,6 km²overlap0.02 km²0%
Lakes (10, top by area)
- Upper Kananaskis Lakearea8,5 km²avg depth7.4 m
- Lower Kananaskis Lakearea5,9 km²avg depth27.2 m
- Lac 950118area0,4 km²avg depth9.2 m
- Lac 949700area0,4 km²avg depth8.1 m
- Lac 950948area0,2 km²avg depth7.7 m
- Lac 945655area0,2 km²avg depth3.9 m
- Lac 950644area0,2 km²avg depth8.0 m
- Lac 948462area0,1 km²avg depth5.1 m
- Lac 948258area0,1 km²avg depth7.8 m
1 more lakes
Rivers / streams (14, ord ≥ 4)
- Smith-Dorrien Creekord 2len here18.92 km93%total20 km
- Boulton Creekord 2len here14.28 km100%total14 km
- Pocaterra Creekord 3len here13.97 km92%total15 km
- Upper Kananaskis Riverord 2len here11.58 km100%total12 km
- Kananaskis Riverord 3len here9.20 km18%total51 km
- Foch Creekord 1len here6.73 km100%total7 km
- French Creekord 1len here6.32 km100%total6 km
- Kent Creekord 1len here5.55 km100%total6 km
- Three Isle Creekord 1len here4.11 km100%total4 km
- King Creekord 1len here2.11 km100%total2 km
- Commonwealth Creekord 1len here1.62 km100%total2 km
- Fox Creekord 2len here1.29 km6%total20 km
2 more river segmentssorted by Strahler order + length
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
- 50.68094, -115.19412
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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.