HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #8080142560
Bassin de Loon 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
318,4km²
Upstream area
3 322,3km²
Discharge
26,34m³/s
Mean elev.
138m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Iroquois River1322 km²
- Bassin · #8080139420342 km²
1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- Inuvik320.5 km²100.0% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Fort Anderson Trail Lakes
IUCN Not ApplicableConservation zone in regional land use plan
25.22 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
11 distinct species · 23 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°
-8,5°C
Annual rain
267mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,42
Runoff
265mm/an
PET
457mm
AET
246mm
Mean slope
1,8°
Water table
46cm
Forest
0%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)