HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #8080145250
Bassin de Deh-Cho - Mackenzie 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
332,1km²
Upstream area
1 660 882,8km²
Discharge
8 923,5m³/s
Mean elev.
69m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- Inuvik334.4 km²100.0% of basin
3 intersecting protected areas
Fossil Lake
IUCN Not ApplicableConservation zone in regional land use plan
79.01 km² overlap
Indigenous and Territorial Protected Area
32.87 km² overlap
Mackenzie River Islands
IUCN Not ApplicableConservation zone in regional land use plan
5.92 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
3 distinct species · 4 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°
-7,9°C
Annual rain
280mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,42
Runoff
260mm/an
PET
482mm
AET
255mm
Mean slope
2,1°
Water table
67cm
Forest
15%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)