HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #8080007020
Bassin de Kobuk 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 : Northwest Arctic
Sub-basin area
1 250,9km²
Upstream area
30 059,9km²
Discharge
430,7m³/s
Mean elev.
66m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
Outlet (drains to ocean / endorheic)
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Kobuk River1560 km²
- Bassin de Squirrel River332 km²
1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 1258.4 km²99.9% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Selawik
IUCN IVNational Wildlife Refuge
249.14 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
264 distinct species · 1 126 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 45 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 Kobuk River : 36 espèces dont 3 patrimoniales (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 108 interactions GloBI sur 5 types (connectance 10.0%, 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°
-6,4°C
Annual rain
256mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,18
Runoff
427mm/an
PET
315mm
AET
224mm
Mean slope
3,1°
Water table
73cm
Forest
22%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
22%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)