HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #8080116250
Bassin de Deh-Cho - 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
635,1km²
Upstream area
1 712 061,1km²
Discharge
8 936,48m³/s
Mean elev.
49m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Deh-Cho - Mackenzie River2567 km²
- Bassin de Arctic Red River1434 km²
1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- Inuvik639.6 km²100.0% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Old Arctic Red River
IUCN Not ApplicableHeritage Conservation Zone in regional land use plan
2.14 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
125 distinct species · 1 588 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 38 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 Deh-Cho - Mackenzie River : 25 espèces dont 3 patrimoniales (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 71 interactions GloBI sur 5 types (connectance 9.6%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 14 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°
-8,4°C
Annual rain
284mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,32
Runoff
156mm/an
PET
420mm
AET
253mm
Mean slope
1,4°
Water table
31cm
Forest
26%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)