HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080240800
Bassin de Miyapiskau - Rivière Pontax
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
194,8km²
Upstream area
6 235,1km²
Discharge
76,45m³/s
Mean elev.
85m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 195.6 km²100.0% of basin
2 intersecting protected areas
Proposed biodiversity reserve
145.46 km² overlap
Land reserved for protected area
50.06 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
1 distinct species · 1 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°
-1,4°C
Annual rain
730mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,17
Runoff
303mm/an
PET
603mm
AET
480mm
Mean slope
1,0°
Water table
10cm
Forest
68%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)