HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #8080080830
Bassin de Chipp 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 : North Slope
Sub-basin area
456,6km²
Upstream area
13 539,6km²
Discharge
36,78m³/s
Mean elev.
15m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Oumalik River1004 km²
- Bassin de Ikpikpuk River305 km²
1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 460.0 km²100.0% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
98 distinct species · 1 745 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 37 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 Chipp River : 29 espèces dont 2 patrimoniales (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 67 interactions GloBI sur 3 types (connectance 10.1%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 8 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°
-12,1°C
Annual rain
143mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,45
Runoff
118mm/an
PET
262mm
AET
155mm
Mean slope
1,4°
Water table
29cm
Forest
0%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
100%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)