Watersheds Region Coordinate system: 4326 Abstract: This layer indicates watersheds across Canada. Also known as a drainage basin or catchment area, a watershed is a boundary dividing an extent of land where water from rain or snow melt drains downhill into a body of water. Each feature in this layer includes the name of the watershed and which ocean it flows towards. Additional tables and supporting documentation are available in the Data Dictionary and User Manual.

Additional Documentation

• Metadata Information

  Language: eng; CAN

  Last Update: 2023-11-08

  Metadata Contact:

  Scholars Portal, Ontario Council of University Libraries Toronto Ontario, Canada

  http://scholarsportal.info

  Contact Instructions:

  datagis@scholarsportal.info

  Metadata Standard:

  ISO 19115-2

• Citation Information

  
  
  

  Series

  Name: CanMap Content Suite

  
  

  DMTI Spatial Inc. Markham Ontario, Canada

  Themes or Categories of the Resource: environment

  Keywords:

  Drainage Basin, Catchment Area

  Watersheds, Bassin hydrologique

  Place Keywords:

  Continent > North America > Canada

  Dataset Language: eng; CAN

  Status: completed

  Update Frequency: quarterly

  Spatial Representation Type: vector

  Processing Environment:

  Windows 10 Enterprise Version 22H2 (Build 19045.2604) Windows feature experience pack 120.2212.4190.0; Esri ArcGIS 10.6.1s

  Extent

  West Longitude: -145.437273

  East Longitude: -52.63629192

  North Latitude: 83.110626

  South Latitude: 41.00379201

  
  

  Supplemental Information:

• Spatial Representation - Vector

  Geometric Objects:

  Object Type: composite

• Reference System Information

  Reference System Identifier

  Value: 4326

  Code Space: https://www.epsg.org/
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• Distribution Information

  Distributor:

  DMTI Spatial Inc. Markham Ontario, Canada