HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #8080149640
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
293,8km²
Upstream area
293,8km²
Discharge
3,02m³/s
Mean elev.
326m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- Inuvik274.5 km²92.8% of basin
- 21.2 km²7.2% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Peel Watershed LMU 9
IUCN Not ReportedTo Be Determined
32.90 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°
-7,1°C
Annual rain
316mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,33
Runoff
332mm/an
PET
470mm
AET
278mm
Mean slope
1,8°
Water table
66cm
Forest
3%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)