HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #8080131800
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
992,1km²
Upstream area
1 675 524,8km²
Discharge
9 001,26m³/s
Mean elev.
136m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- Inuvik998.9 km²100.0% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Mackenzie River Islands
IUCN Not ApplicableConservation zone in regional land use plan
11.79 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
16 distinct species · 25 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°
-8,4°C
Annual rain
253mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,42
Runoff
229mm/an
PET
438mm
AET
236mm
Mean slope
2,4°
Water table
69cm
Forest
14%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)