HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080148350
Bassin de Rivière du Sable
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 : Nord-du-Québec, Sept-Rivières--Caniapiscau
Sub-basin area
445,5km²
Upstream area
4 391,4km²
Discharge
63,35m³/s
Mean elev.
544m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Rivière du Sable904 km²
- Bassin de Rivière du Sable158 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 444.9 km²99.4% of basin
- 2.6 km²0.6% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
5 distinct species · 8 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°
-5,5°C
Annual rain
761mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,45
Runoff
457mm/an
PET
421mm
AET
386mm
Mean slope
3,9°
Water table
82cm
Forest
53%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)