HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080020090
Bassin de Stikine River
A watershed (drainage basin) is not a body of water — it is the land area where rainfall converges towards a single river that eventually reaches the sea (or an endorheic basin). Boundaries follow ridgelines.
Crosses 2 administrative regions across 2 countries : Kitimat-Stikine, Wrangell-Petersburg
Sub-basin area
1 311km²
Upstream area
50 659km²
Discharge
1 649,68m³/s
Mean elev.
693m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
Outlet (drains to ocean / endorheic)
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Stikine River2204 km²
- Bassin de Iskut River630 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 1077.9 km²81.8% of basin
- 239.5 km²18.2% of basin
2 intersecting protected areas
Stikine-Leconte
IUCN IbWilderness
668.43 km² overlap
GREAT GLACIER PARK
IUCN IIA - Park
0.39 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
500 distinct species · 10 159 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 36 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 Bassin de Stikine River : 25 espèces dont 2 patrimoniales (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 76 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 12.1%, 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).
Hydroclimate (BasinATLAS lev08)
Mean T°
2,9°C
Annual rain
1 600mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,67
Runoff
2 469mm/an
PET
534mm
AET
508mm
Mean slope
23,2°
Water table
759cm
Forest
6%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
80%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)