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Proposed Waskaganish Biodiversity Reserve
- Area
- 1 078 km²
- IUCN cat.
- II
- Year
- 2004
Overview
- Designation
- Proposed biodiversity reserve
- IUCN category
- II · Parc national
Écosystèmes préservés + récréation grand public
- Established
- 2004
- Managing authority
- Ministère de l'Environnement, de la Lutte contre les changements climatiques, de la Faune et des Parcs, Direction des aires protégées
Source : WDPA (UNEP-WCMC, World Database on Protected Areas).
Species present
89 distinct species · 117 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 27 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 Proposed Waskaganish Biodiversity Reserve : 21 espèces dont 1 patrimoniale (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 49 interactions GloBI sur 3 types (connectance 12.1%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 8 bulles taxonomiques (cascade genre/famille GloBI, ≥3 espèces).
Comparaison sur la connectance du réseau local complet vs distribution nationale (toutes les communes françaises).
Hydrology13 basins · 13 lakes · 6 rivers
Hydrology metrics for this exact territory
Stream length here
260,8km
Lake surface here
10,97km²
Basins crossed
13
Max stream order
5
Max drainage
41 667km²
Discharge in basins
115,6m³/s
Mean precip.
751mm/an
Mean T°
-1,6°C
Moisture idx
0,20
Max snow
53%
Mean runoff
326mm/an
Mean elev. (basins)
134m
Watersheds crossing here
- Bassin de Rivière Machisakahikanistikwsub-area961,9 km²overlap804.95 km²75%
- Bassin de Miyapiskau - Rivière Pontaxsub-area194,8 km²overlap145.46 km²13%
- Bassin de Miyapiskau - Rivière Pontaxsub-area235,1 km²overlap59.47 km²6%
- Bassin de Miyapiskau - Rivière Pontaxsub-area1 288,4 km²overlap29.14 km²3%
- Bassin de Miyapiskau - Rivière Pontaxsub-area113,6 km²overlap19.28 km²2%
- Basin #24930sub-area12,5 km²overlap5.78 km²1%
- Bassin de Rivière Rupertsub-area414,6 km²overlap4.16 km²0%
- Basin #24900sub-area77,3 km²overlap4.00 km²0%
- Bassin de Rivière Rupertsub-area693,7 km²overlap3.51 km²0%
Lakes (13, top by area)
- Lac Machisakahikanarea5,4 km²avg depth5.5 m
- Lac Machisakahikanisharea1,8 km²avg depth3.7 m
- Lac 924460area0,8 km²avg depth2.9 m
- Lac 925650area0,6 km²avg depth3.2 m
- Lac 924684area0,5 km²avg depth2.7 m
- Lac 925111area0,4 km²avg depth2.4 m
- Lac 924470area0,4 km²avg depth2.8 m
- Lac 925016area0,2 km²avg depth2.2 m
- Lac 925548area0,2 km²avg depth3.1 m
Rivers / streams (6, ord ≥ 4)
- Rivière Machisakahikanistikword 4len here115.40 km98%total118 km
- Miyapiskau - Rivière Pontaxord 5len here100.72 km24%total429 km
- Ruisseau Macisakahikanistikword 2len here17.46 km100%total17 km
- Ruisseau Machisakahikanischikushord 3len here17.06 km100%total17 km
- Ruisseau Waphyeword 3len here9.20 km100%total9 km
- Rivière Enistuwachord 3len here1.01 km1%total120 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
- 51.50437, -77.88823
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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.