HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #7080337970
Bassin de Canada-US Great Lakes maritime boundary (Superior-Huron)
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 across 2 countries : Lake Superior
Sub-basin area
191,3km²
Upstream area
86 065,8km²
Discharge
1 285,59m³/s
Mean elev.
179m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Wickham Creek1469 km²
- Bassin · #7080336780159 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 149.3 km²77.8% of basin
- 42.6 km²22.2% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
National Marine Conservation Area
39.14 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
1 distinct species · 2 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°
3,2°C
Annual rain
813mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,14
Runoff
699mm/an
PET
703mm
AET
556mm
Mean slope
0,0°
Water table
0cm
Forest
0%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
22%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)