HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #8080007300
Bassin de Wulik 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
284,9km²
Upstream area
4 078,8km²
Discharge
52,19m³/s
Mean elev.
46m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
Outlet (drains to ocean / endorheic)
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Kivalina River1680 km²
- Bassin de Wulik River274 km²
1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 286.8 km²99.9% of basin
2 intersecting protected areas
Marine Protected Area
18.53 km² overlap
Cape Krusenstern
IUCN VNational Monument
18.51 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
78 distinct species · 92 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 29 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 Wulik River : 24 espèces dont 1 patrimoniale (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 54 interactions GloBI sur 2 types (connectance 13.3%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 5 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°
-7,2°C
Annual rain
234mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,10
Runoff
451mm/an
PET
262mm
AET
202mm
Mean slope
3,1°
Water table
90cm
Forest
0%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
7%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)