HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #8080127770
Bassin de Kobuk 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 : Northwest Arctic
Sub-basin area
765,1km²
Upstream area
17 319,4km²
Discharge
202,23m³/s
Mean elev.
86m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Kobuk River471 km²
- Bassin de Ambler River41 km²
1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 770.4 km²100.0% of basin
4 intersecting protected areas
Kobuk Valley
IUCN IINational Park
220.45 km² overlap
Kobuk Valley
IUCN IbWilderness Area
72.68 km² overlap
Selawik
IUCN IVNational Wildlife Refuge
40.23 km² overlap
Selawik
IUCN IbWilderness Area
0.03 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
444 distinct species · 1 928 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 50 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 Kobuk River : 33 espèces dont 1 patrimoniale (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 129 interactions GloBI sur 5 types (connectance 10.1%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 18 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°
-7,4°C
Annual rain
257mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,24
Runoff
478mm/an
PET
341mm
AET
230mm
Mean slope
3,6°
Water table
86cm
Forest
3%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
45%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)