HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080143720
Bassin de Rivière Caniapiscau
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
541,5km²
Upstream area
42 623,6km²
Discharge
732,73m³/s
Mean elev.
447m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 544.1 km²100.0% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Land reserved for protected area
76.02 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
2 distinct species · 2 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°
-5,4°C
Annual rain
719mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,41
Runoff
465mm/an
PET
421mm
AET
380mm
Mean slope
3,7°
Water table
60cm
Forest
34%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)