HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #8080146490
Bassin de Sainville 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 : Inuvik, Yukon
Sub-basin area
928,1km²
Upstream area
928,1km²
Discharge
9,57m³/s
Mean elev.
226m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- Inuvik659.6 km²70.6% of basin
- 274.8 km²29.4% of basin
2 intersecting protected areas
Peel Watershed LMU 14
IUCN Not ReportedTo Be Determined
39.03 km² overlap
Peel Watershed LMU 9
IUCN Not ReportedTo Be Determined
1.60 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
7 distinct species · 13 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°
-6,8°C
Annual rain
323mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,32
Runoff
334mm/an
PET
477mm
AET
282mm
Mean slope
1,6°
Water table
45cm
Forest
1%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)