HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #8080131920
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
167,7km²
Upstream area
2 153,8km²
Discharge
14,52m³/s
Mean elev.
249m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Dease River258 km²
- Bassin de Dease River240 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- Fort Smith168.3 km²99.7% of basin
- 0.6 km²0.3% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Caribou Point
IUCN Not ApplicableConservation zone in regional land use plan
106.99 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
1 distinct species · 1 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°
-8,9°C
Annual rain
224mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,31
Runoff
212mm/an
PET
327mm
AET
208mm
Mean slope
1,6°
Water table
47cm
Forest
0%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)