HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #8080096070
Bassin de Itkillik 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
1 016,3km²
Upstream area
2 324,9km²
Discharge
6,38m³/s
Mean elev.
627m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Itkillik River1098 km²
- Bassin · #8080104100210 km²
1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 1023.6 km²100.0% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Gates of the Arctic
IUCN VNational Preserve
0.34 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
1 292 distinct species · 22 589 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 44 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 Itkillik River : 33 espèces dont 1 patrimoniale (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 59 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 6.2%, 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°
-11,3°C
Annual rain
220mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,40
Runoff
132mm/an
PET
369mm
AET
211mm
Mean slope
5,1°
Water table
86cm
Forest
0%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
18%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)