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Rideau Canal National Historic Site
- Area
- 203 km²
- IUCN cat.
- Not Applicable
- Year
- 2023
Overview
- Designation
- National Historic Site
- Established
- 2023
- Managing authority
- Parks Canada Agency
Source : WDPA (UNEP-WCMC, World Database on Protected Areas).
Species present
4 612 distinct species · 281 975 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 Rideau Canal National Historic Site : 20 espèces reliées par 64 interactions GloBI sur 3 types (connectance 12.9%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 12 bulles taxonomiques (cascade genre/famille GloBI, ≥3 espèces).
Comparaison sur la connectance du réseau local complet vs distribution nationale (toutes les communes françaises).
Hydrology4 basins · 16 lakes · 21 rivers
Hydrology metrics for this exact territory
Stream length here
138,1km
Lake surface here
160,78km²
Basins crossed
4
Max stream order
5
Max drainage
89 710km²
Discharge in basins
2,5m³/s
Mean precip.
879mm/an
Mean T°
6,0°C
Moisture idx
0,08
Max snow
27%
Mean runoff
382mm/an
Mean elev. (basins)
155m
Watersheds crossing here
Lakes (16, top by area)
- Ontarioarea19 347,4 km²avg depth84.8 m
- Adams Lakearea74,3 km²avg depth10.2 m
- Bobs Lakearea27,5 km²avg depth13.3 m
- Cranberry Lakearea24 km²avg depth11.1 m
- Clear Lakearea23,7 km²avg depth6.3 m
- Opinicon Lakearea17,1 km²avg depth9.9 m
- Colonel By Lakearea15,2 km²avg depth4.7 m
- Benson Lakearea4,1 km²avg depth5.8 m
- Big Rideau Lakearea1,7 km²avg depth1.8 m
Rivers / streams (21, ord ≥ 4)
- Rideau Riverord 5len here55.48 km37%total151 km
- Cataraqui Riverord 4len here33.41 km75%total45 km
- Rideau Canalord 5len here12.58 km60%total21 km
- The Streamord 2len here6.20 km46%total13 km
- Massassauga Creekord 1len here4.33 km53%total8 km
- Jones Falls Locksord 3len here3.85 km67%total6 km
- Sucker Creekord 3len here3.61 km2%total207 km
- Tay Riverord 3len here3.61 km5%total66 km
- Milburn Creekord 2len here2.67 km35%total8 km
- Stevens Creekord 5len here2.66 km4%total63 km
- Jock Riverord 5len here1.95 km2%total80 km
- Black Creekord 5len here1.50 km0%total960 km
9 more river segmentssorted by Strahler order + length
- Kemptville Creekord 3len here1.46 km2%total62 km
- Steventown Creekord 1len here1.42 km21%total7 km
- Adrains Creekord 1len here0.93 km70%total1 km
- Rosedale Creekord 2len here0.81 km6%total15 km
- Dead Creekord 3len here0.50 km1%total58 km
- Dales Creekord 5len here0.41 km28%total1 km
- Rideau Creekord 2len here0.38 km6%total6 km
- Bear Creekord 5len here0.31 km0%total415 km
- Mosquito Creekord 1len here0.08 km0%total31 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
- 44.83798, -76.16817
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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.