HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080262790
Bassin de Rivière Harricana
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
182,5km²
Upstream area
24 041,8km²
Discharge
369,24m³/s
Mean elev.
88m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Rivière Despreux469 km²
- Bassin de Rivière Harricana331 km²
1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 183.2 km²100.0% of basin
2 intersecting protected areas
Proposed aquatic reserve
43.16 km² overlap
Land reserved for protected area
26.86 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
23 distinct species · 30 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°
-0,4°C
Annual rain
763mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,14
Runoff
289mm/an
PET
656mm
AET
517mm
Mean slope
0,6°
Water table
9cm
Forest
16%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)