HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080257860
Bassin de Rivière des Montagnes Blanches
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 : Le Fjord-du-Saguenay
Sub-basin area
592km²
Upstream area
2 219,7km²
Discharge
48,31m³/s
Mean elev.
557m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 594.1 km²100.0% of basin
6 intersecting protected areas
Proposed biodiversity reserve
63.83 km² overlap
02451R068 Biological Refuge
IUCN IVBiological refuge
4.67 km² overlap
02451R066 Biological Refuge
IUCN IVBiological refuge
4.28 km² overlap
02451R062 Biological Refuge
IUCN IVBiological refuge
2.76 km² overlap
02451R072 Biological Refuge
IUCN IVBiological refuge
1.83 km² overlap
02451R063 Biological Refuge
IUCN IVBiological refuge
0.71 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
0 distinct species · 0 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°
-2,2°C
Annual rain
918mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,40
Runoff
676mm/an
PET
552mm
AET
513mm
Mean slope
2,3°
Water table
36cm
Forest
73%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
2%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)