HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080240710
Bassin de Waitabit Creek
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 : Columbia-Shuswap, Division No. 15
Sub-basin area
352,3km²
Upstream area
352,3km²
Discharge
9,64m³/s
Mean elev.
1 840m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 351.4 km²99.4% of basin
- 2.1 km²0.6% of basin
3 intersecting protected areas
Canadian Rocky Mountain Parks
IUCN Not ApplicableWorld Heritage Site (natural or mixed)
2.04 km² overlap
National Park
1.95 km² overlap
MARL CREEK PARK
IUCN IIIA - Park
0.12 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
16 distinct species · 22 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°
-0,9°C
Annual rain
780mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,25
Runoff
858mm/an
PET
587mm
AET
472mm
Mean slope
25,4°
Water table
733cm
Forest
19%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
1%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)