HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #8080109940
Bassin de Anderson 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 : Inuvik
Sub-basin area
1 245,9km²
Upstream area
16 278,2km²
Discharge
51,38m³/s
Mean elev.
275m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Anderson River846 km²
- Bassin de Anderson River486 km²
1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- Inuvik1254.7 km²100.0% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Anderson River
IUCN Not ApplicableConservation zone in regional land use plan
35.69 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
1 distinct species · 2 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°
-10,6°C
Annual rain
214mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,30
Runoff
109mm/an
PET
305mm
AET
201mm
Mean slope
2,5°
Water table
75cm
Forest
4%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)