HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #8080151870
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
389,9km²
Upstream area
389,9km²
Discharge
2,48m³/s
Mean elev.
220m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- Inuvik392.5 km²100.0% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Whitefish River
IUCN Not ApplicableConservation zone in regional land use plan
15.40 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
7 distinct species · 7 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
279mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,33
Runoff
226mm/an
PET
417mm
AET
253mm
Mean slope
1,6°
Water table
28cm
Forest
10%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)