HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #8080136450
Bassin de Kobuk 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 : Northwest Arctic, Yukon-Koyukuk
Sub-basin area
180,3km²
Upstream area
180,4km²
Discharge
2,59m³/s
Mean elev.
306m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 118.9 km²65.5% of basin
- 62.6 km²34.5% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Gates of the Arctic
IUCN VNational Preserve
153.50 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°
-8,6°C
Annual rain
364mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,14
Runoff
478mm/an
PET
422mm
AET
303mm
Mean slope
8,1°
Water table
146cm
Forest
46%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
85%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)