HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080058970
Bassin de Wheeler Creek
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 : Juneau, Skagway-Yakutat-Angoon
Sub-basin area
159,7km²
Upstream area
159,7km²
Discharge
6,79m³/s
Mean elev.
540m
Administrative coverage
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 156.8 km²97.6% of basin
- 3.7 km²2.3% of basin
2 intersecting protected areas
Admiralty Island
IUCN VNational Monument
160.28 km² overlap
Kootznoowoo
IUCN IbWilderness
157.86 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
26 distinct species · 31 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Not enough documented interactions to build a meaningful graph for this territory.
Hydroclimate (BasinATLAS lev08)
Mean T°
3,0°C
Annual rain
1 558mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,69
Runoff
1 726mm/an
PET
481mm
AET
472mm
Mean slope
19,8°
Water table
665cm
Forest
59%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
93%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)