Provincial Park · can
Spray Valley Provincial Park
- Area
- 256 km²
- IUCN cat.
- II
- Year
- 2000
Overview
- Designation
- Provincial Park
- IUCN category
- II · Parc national
Écosystèmes préservés + récréation grand public
- Established
- 2000
- Managing authority
- Parks Division, Alberta Forestry and Parks
Source : WDPA (UNEP-WCMC, World Database on Protected Areas).
Species present
601 distinct species · 5 006 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 45 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 Spray Valley Provincial Park : 28 espèces dont 1 patrimoniale (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 103 interactions GloBI sur 5 types (connectance 9.5%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 19 bulles taxonomiques (cascade genre/famille GloBI, ≥3 espèces).
Comparaison sur la connectance du réseau local complet vs distribution nationale (toutes les communes françaises).
Hydrology2 basins · 3 lakes · 14 rivers
Hydrology metrics for this exact territory
Stream length here
54,0km
Lake surface here
20,25km²
Basins crossed
2
Max stream order
3
Max drainage
956km²
Discharge in basins
2,0m³/s
Mean precip.
633mm/an
Mean T°
-1,4°C
Moisture idx
0,07
Max snow
52%
Mean runoff
282mm/an
Mean elev. (basins)
2 076m
Watersheds crossing here
Lakes (3, top by area)
Rivers / streams (14, ord ≥ 4)
- Kananaskis Riverord 3len here13.67 km27%total51 km
- Galatea Creekord 3len here6.75 km100%total7 km
- Ribbon Creekord 3len here5.64 km47%total12 km
- Buller Creekord 2len here5.29 km17%total31 km
- Spray Riverord 3len here5.17 km10%total53 km
- Goat Creekord 1len here4.93 km40%total12 km
- Smuts Creekord 2len here4.77 km79%total6 km
- Rummel Creekord 2len here3.73 km92%total4 km
- Evan-Thomas Creekord 2len here1.52 km16%total9 km
- Rocky Creekord 1len here1.30 km28%total5 km
- Turbulent Creekord 1len here0.48 km7%total7 km
- North Ribbon Creekord 1len here0.45 km17%total3 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
- 50.91873, -115.19106
- Open in maps
- OpenStreetMap → · Satellite →
Species observed (Phase 2)
Listing species observed within this protected area requires the GBIF v2 partition × WDPA spatial overlay matview. Computing infrastructure pending.