HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #8080130060
Bassin de Squirrel 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
86,9km²
Upstream area
3 525,2km²
Discharge
46,86m³/s
Mean elev.
105m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin · #8080129510306 km²
- Bassin de Squirrel River218 km²
1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 87.5 km²100.0% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
7 distinct species · 26 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°
-7,0°C
Annual rain
244mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,20
Runoff
451mm/an
PET
305mm
AET
216mm
Mean slope
4,4°
Water table
105cm
Forest
0%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)