HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #8080129820
Bassin de Dease 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 2 administrative regions : Fort Smith, Kitikmeot
Sub-basin area
240km²
Upstream area
1 727,8km²
Discharge
11,64m³/s
Mean elev.
264m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Sandy Creek337 km²
- Bassin de Dease River213 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 126.0 km²52.1% of basin
- Fort Smith115.7 km²47.9% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Caribou Point
IUCN Not ApplicableConservation zone in regional land use plan
36.66 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
0 distinct species · 0 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°
-9,0°C
Annual rain
223mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,31
Runoff
214mm/an
PET
323mm
AET
207mm
Mean slope
1,7°
Water table
63cm
Forest
0%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)