HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #8080129130
Bassin de Porcupine 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 : Yukon
Sub-basin area
1 886,5km²
Upstream area
23 040,6km²
Discharge
161,13m³/s
Mean elev.
351m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Porcupine River2332 km²
- Bassin de Ch'iizhàk Niinlaii408 km²
1 intersecting protected areas
Ch’ihilii Chìk
IUCN IVHabitat Protection Area
210.50 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
4 distinct species · 5 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°
-7,9°C
Annual rain
293mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,29
Runoff
277mm/an
PET
410mm
AET
260mm
Mean slope
4,6°
Water table
117cm
Forest
13%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)