HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #8080143740
Bassin de Porcupine 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
Sub-basin area
52,7km²
Upstream area
9 061,4km²
Discharge
54,18m³/s
Mean elev.
356m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Fishing Branch River824 km²
- Bassin de Miner River151 km²
1 intersecting protected areas
Territorial Park
30.47 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
4 distinct species · 39 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
291mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,34
Runoff
270mm/an
PET
444mm
AET
262mm
Mean slope
4,1°
Water table
79cm
Forest
17%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
59%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)