HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080121780
Bassin de Rivière aux Mélèzes
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
652,4km²
Upstream area
652,6km²
Discharge
11,78m³/s
Mean elev.
313m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 655.6 km²100.0% of basin
2 intersecting protected areas
Quebec's national park
32.76 km² overlap
Land reserved for protected area
4.29 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
2 distinct species · 6 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°
-6,1°C
Annual rain
582mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,37
Runoff
575mm/an
PET
369mm
AET
329mm
Mean slope
2,8°
Water table
34cm
Forest
22%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
5%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)