HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080216010
Bassin de Rivière Saffray
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 : Maria-Chapdelaine, Nord-du-Québec
Sub-basin area
998,9km²
Upstream area
999km²
Discharge
25,34m³/s
Mean elev.
711m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 988.9 km²98.6% of basin
- 13.9 km²1.4% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Quebec's national park
714.90 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
8 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°
-4,0°C
Annual rain
915mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,47
Runoff
804mm/an
PET
482mm
AET
461mm
Mean slope
2,9°
Water table
37cm
Forest
67%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)