HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080173440
Bassin de Rivière Kanaaupscow
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
112,6km²
Upstream area
15 109,2km²
Discharge
293,36m³/s
Mean elev.
201m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Rivière Kanaaupscow763 km²
- Bassin de Rivière Griault140 km²
1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 113.1 km²100.0% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Land reserved for protected area
19.57 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
3 distinct species · 4 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°
-3,9°C
Annual rain
685mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,32
Runoff
593mm/an
PET
467mm
AET
401mm
Mean slope
3,1°
Water table
68cm
Forest
70%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)