HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #8080143280
Bassin de Salmon Fork Black 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 : Yukon-Koyukuk
Sub-basin area
1 067,2km²
Upstream area
1 067,2km²
Discharge
3,38m³/s
Mean elev.
436m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 1074.5 km²100.0% of basin
3 intersecting protected areas
Yukon Flats
IUCN IVNational Wildlife Refuge
683.41 km² overlap
Marine Protected Area
22.96 km² overlap
Arctic
IUCN IVNational Wildlife Refuge
20.70 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
3 distinct species · 8 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
201mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,55
Runoff
104mm/an
PET
451mm
AET
203mm
Mean slope
6,1°
Water table
157cm
Forest
30%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
68%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)