National Park · can
Waterton Lakes National Park Of Canada
- Area
- 499 km²
- IUCN cat.
- II
- Year
- 1895
Overview
- Designation
- National Park
- IUCN category
- II · Parc national
Écosystèmes préservés + récréation grand public
- Established
- 1895
- Managing authority
- Parks Canada Agency
Source : WDPA (UNEP-WCMC, World Database on Protected Areas).
Species present
5 207 distinct species · 213 620 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 32 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 Waterton Lakes National Park Of Canada : 21 espèces reliées par 63 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 12.7%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 11 bulles taxonomiques (cascade genre/famille GloBI, ≥3 espèces).
Comparaison sur la connectance du réseau local complet vs distribution nationale (toutes les communes françaises).
Hydrology9 basins · 11 lakes · 12 rivers
Hydrology metrics for this exact territory
Stream length here
114,0km
Lake surface here
13,04km²
Basins crossed
9
Max stream order
3
Max drainage
3 437km²
Discharge in basins
7,6m³/s
Mean precip.
617mm/an
Mean T°
2,0°C
Moisture idx
-0,15
Max snow
52%
Mean runoff
366mm/an
Mean elev. (basins)
1 701m
Watersheds crossing here
- Bassin de Blakiston Creeksub-area159,2 km²overlap156.90 km²31%
- Bassin de Waterton Riversub-area392,6 km²overlap147.35 km²30%
- Bassin de Waterton Riversub-area403,8 km²overlap137.90 km²28%
- Bassin de Belly Riversub-area1 268,8 km²overlap52.06 km²10%
- Bassin de Drywood Creeksub-area296,6 km²overlap3.72 km²1%
- Bassin de North Fork Flathead Riversub-area2 083,5 km²overlap0.68 km²0%
- Bassin de Castle Riversub-area1 232,7 km²overlap0.59 km²0%
- Bassin de Sage Creeksub-area226,8 km²overlap0.00 km²0%
- Bassin de Lee Creeksub-area331,7 km²overlap0.00 km²0%
Lakes (11, top by area)
- Upper Waterton Lakearea12,6 km²avg depth32.5 m
- Lower Waterton Lakearea1,5 km²avg depth6.3 m
- Cameron Lakearea1,5 km²avg depth22.0 m
- Lac 982213area0,4 km²avg depth3.7 m
- Lac 983149area0,3 km²avg depth8.9 m
- Lac 982243area0,2 km²avg depth7.5 m
- Lac 982315area0,2 km²avg depth5.0 m
- Lac 983712area0,2 km²avg depth9.2 m
- Lac 983148area0,1 km²avg depth10.8 m
Rivers / streams (12, ord ≥ 4)
- Waterton Riverord 5len here35.22 km19%total186 km
- Blakiston Creekord 2len here21.70 km100%total22 km
- Cameron Creekord 3len here19.22 km74%total26 km
- Bauerman Creekord 2len here11.47 km100%total11 km
- North Fork Belly Riverord 2len here7.50 km47%total16 km
- Belly Riverord 5len here6.63 km3%total256 km
- Hell-Roaring Creekord 3len here4.07 km100%total4 km
- Lineham Creekord 2len here2.78 km28%total10 km
- Lone Creekord 1len here2.53 km100%total3 km
- Yarrow Creekord 2len here1.00 km4%total25 km
- Street Creekord 3len here0.94 km16%total6 km
- Boundary Creekord 2len here0.92 km2%total56 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
- 49.10127, -113.98095
- Open in maps
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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.