HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #8080151750
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
633,4km²
Upstream area
3 601,4km²
Discharge
20,46m³/s
Mean elev.
213m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- Inuvik637.8 km²100.0% of basin
2 intersecting protected areas
Whitefish River
IUCN Not ApplicableConservation zone in regional land use plan
50.20 km² overlap
Sentinel Islands
IUCN Not ApplicableConservation zone in regional land use plan
0.61 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
1 distinct species · 1 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°
-8,3°C
Annual rain
270mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,34
Runoff
198mm/an
PET
408mm
AET
246mm
Mean slope
1,4°
Water table
37cm
Forest
6%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)