HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080093370
Bassin de Rivière Vachon
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 1 administrative regions : Nord-du-Québec
Sub-basin area
251,4km²
Upstream area
9 690,3km²
Discharge
99,67m³/s
Mean elev.
177m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Rivière Lestage1419 km²
- Bassin de Rivière Vachon280 km²
1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 252.8 km²100.0% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Land reserved for protected area
246.75 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
27 distinct species · 28 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°
-7,1°C
Annual rain
406mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,25
Runoff
364mm/an
PET
305mm
AET
262mm
Mean slope
4,0°
Water table
133cm
Forest
0%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)