HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #8080088450
Bassin de Shaviovik 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
480,5km²
Upstream area
480,5km²
Discharge
0,53m³/s
Mean elev.
439m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 484.0 km²100.0% of basin
2 intersecting protected areas
Marine Protected Area
97.96 km² overlap
Arctic
IUCN IVNational Wildlife Refuge
97.96 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
11 distinct species · 12 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°
-11,5°C
Annual rain
171mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,49
Runoff
44mm/an
PET
335mm
AET
179mm
Mean slope
9,1°
Water table
193cm
Forest
0%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
20%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)