HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #8080147550
Bassin de Whitefish 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
114,3km²
Upstream area
10 519,4km²
Discharge
55,66m³/s
Mean elev.
148m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Whitefish River434 km²
- Bassin de Whitefish River285 km²
1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- Inuvik115.1 km²100.0% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
National Historic Site
3.84 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
0 distinct species · 0 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°
-8,0°C
Annual rain
255mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,35
Runoff
203mm/an
PET
393mm
AET
235mm
Mean slope
0,2°
Water table
9cm
Forest
0%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
3%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)