HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080147580
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
25,5km²
Upstream area
41 917,7km²
Discharge
707,48m³/s
Mean elev.
431m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 25.6 km²100.0% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
0 distinct species · 0 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°
-5,2°C
Annual rain
722mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,41
Runoff
463mm/an
PET
425mm
AET
384mm
Mean slope
4,5°
Water table
68cm
Forest
64%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)