HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #8080113450
Bassin de East Channel Mackenzie 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
3 443,5km²
Upstream area
3 443,7km²
Discharge
12,74m³/s
Mean elev.
98m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- Inuvik3468.0 km²100.0% of basin
2 intersecting protected areas
Big Rock
IUCN Not ApplicableHeritage Conservation Zone in regional land use plan
2.04 km² overlap
Earl's Place
IUCN Not ApplicableHeritage Conservation Zone in regional land use plan
1.52 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
580 distinct species · 3 951 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 39 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 East Channel Mackenzie River : 19 espèces dont 2 patrimoniales (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 141 interactions GloBI sur 5 types (connectance 16.4%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 23 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°
-9,2°C
Annual rain
250mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,36
Runoff
150mm/an
PET
393mm
AET
231mm
Mean slope
2,8°
Water table
53cm
Forest
21%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)