HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080228770
Bassin de Chilko River
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 : Cariboo
Sub-basin area
191,1km²
Upstream area
3 008,9km²
Discharge
17,94m³/s
Mean elev.
1 159m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Chilko River851 km²
- Bassin de Brittany Creek234 km²
1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 191.8 km²100.0% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Old Growth Management Areas (Mapped Legal)
IUCN Not ApplicableOld Growth Management Areas (Mapped Legal)
30.20 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
4 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°
1,3°C
Annual rain
378mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,50
Runoff
149mm/an
PET
750mm
AET
329mm
Mean slope
2,6°
Water table
286cm
Forest
26%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)