HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #8080147660
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 2 administrative regions : Fort Smith, Inuvik
Sub-basin area
4 020,7km²
Upstream area
16 668,6km²
Discharge
75,14m³/s
Mean elev.
221m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Whitefish River1534 km²
- Bassin · #8080146220308 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- Fort Smith2525.4 km²62.4% of basin
- Inuvik1522.8 km²37.6% of basin
2 intersecting protected areas
National Historic Site
734.65 km² overlap
Sentinel Islands
IUCN Not ApplicableConservation zone in regional land use plan
0.33 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
99 distinct species · 158 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 15 species (selected proportionally per kingdom among those with at least one documented interaction here) to keep the graph readable. Hover for details, click to explore the full ecosystem of a species.
ℹ️ The territory contains many more species than displayed and all their documented interactions: the graph is intentionally the structural skeleton (top-N species by composite local score, edges filtered by Serrano 2009 disparity filter α=0.2).
Indicateurs du tissu écologique
Tissu écologique de Bassin de Whitefish River : 12 espèces reliées par 16 interactions GloBI sur 3 types (connectance 15.2%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 3 bulles taxonomiques (cascade genre/famille GloBI, ≥3 espèces).
Comparaison sur la connectance du réseau local complet vs distribution nationale (toutes les communes françaises).
Hydroclimate (BasinATLAS lev08)
Mean T°
-8,2°C
Annual rain
244mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,35
Runoff
178mm/an
PET
373mm
AET
226mm
Mean slope
1,1°
Water table
18cm
Forest
7%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
18%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)