HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #8080002160
Bassin de Matanuska 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 2 administrative regions : Anchorage, Matanuska-Susitna
Sub-basin area
1 136,8km²
Upstream area
5 749,6km²
Discharge
65,69m³/s
Mean elev.
776m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
Outlet (drains to ocean / endorheic)
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Matanuska River416 km²
- Bassin de Kings River414 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 1143.4 km²100.0% of basin
- 0.0 km²0.0% of basin
6 intersecting protected areas
Matanuska Valley Moose Range
IUCN VIState Range Area
237.42 km² overlap
State Conservation Area
18.38 km² overlap
Palmer Hay Flats State
IUCN VGame Refuge
9.00 km² overlap
Cornelius Lake
IUCN VLake
0.00 km² overlap
Fairfield
IUCN VPark
0.00 km² overlap
Little Susitna
IUCN VRecreation River
0.00 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
1 454 distinct species · 62 181 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 42 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 Matanuska River : 32 espèces dont 2 patrimoniales (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 72 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 8.0%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 11 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°
-1,5°C
Annual rain
506mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,07
Runoff
606mm/an
PET
466mm
AET
350mm
Mean slope
16,6°
Water table
466cm
Forest
11%
Crops
0%
Urban
1%
Protected
22%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)