HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #8080000810
Bassin de Copper River
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 : Valdez-Cordova
Sub-basin area
2 180,2km²
Upstream area
65 703,5km²
Discharge
1 454,86m³/s
Mean elev.
793m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
Outlet (drains to ocean / endorheic)
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Bremner River2714 km²
- Bassin de Copper River138 km²
1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 2099.3 km²95.7% of basin
4 intersecting protected areas
Kluane / Wrangell-St Elias / Glacier Bay / Tatshenshini-Alsek
IUCN Not ApplicableWorld Heritage Site (natural or mixed)
48.95 km² overlap
Wrangell-Saint Elias
IUCN IbWilderness Area
47.96 km² overlap
Wrangell-St. Elias
IUCN IINational Park
47.77 km² overlap
Copper River Delta
IUCN VCritical Habitat Area
12.33 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
144 distinct species · 610 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 35 species (selected proportionally per kingdom among those with at least one documented interaction here) to keep the graph readable. Hover for details, click to explore the full ecosystem of a species.
ℹ️ The territory contains many more species than displayed and all their documented interactions: the graph is intentionally the structural skeleton (top-N species by composite local score, edges filtered by Serrano 2009 disparity filter α=0.2).
Indicateurs du tissu écologique
Tissu écologique de Bassin de Copper River : 24 espèces reliées par 88 interactions GloBI sur 5 types (connectance 14.0%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 12 bulles taxonomiques (cascade genre/famille GloBI, ≥3 espèces).
Comparaison sur la connectance du réseau local complet vs distribution nationale (toutes les communes françaises).
Hydroclimate (BasinATLAS lev08)
Mean T°
-0,8°C
Annual rain
1 324mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,65
Runoff
1 930mm/an
PET
462mm
AET
452mm
Mean slope
16,6°
Water table
516cm
Forest
0%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
87%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)