HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #8080147780
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
284,7km²
Upstream area
9 971,2km²
Discharge
52,82m³/s
Mean elev.
221m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Whitefish River3475 km²
- Bassin · #80801478501322 km²
1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- Inuvik286.6 km²100.0% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
National Historic Site
89.26 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°
-8,1°C
Annual rain
265mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,34
Runoff
217mm/an
PET
399mm
AET
242mm
Mean slope
1,3°
Water table
18cm
Forest
19%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
31%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)