HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #8080002400
Bassin de McArthur 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 : Kenai Peninsula
Sub-basin area
31,3km²
Upstream area
4 375,2km²
Discharge
215,28m³/s
Mean elev.
17m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
Outlet (drains to ocean / endorheic)
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de McArthur River949 km²
- Bassin de Chakachatna River490 km²
1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 30.9 km²98.2% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Trading Bay State
IUCN VGame Refuge
28.44 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°
1,5°C
Annual rain
654mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,20
Runoff
1 000mm/an
PET
523mm
AET
394mm
Mean slope
1,3°
Water table
38cm
Forest
31%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
91%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)