HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #8080153230
Bassin de Back 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 : Keewatin
Sub-basin area
630,4km²
Upstream area
63 529,8km²
Discharge
337,07m³/s
Mean elev.
145m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin · #8080154870702 km²
- Bassin · #8080154920186 km²
1 intersecting protected areas
Queen Maud Gulf
IUCN Not ReportedWetland of International Importance (Ramsar Site)
0.03 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°
-14,3°C
Annual rain
176mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,32
Runoff
205mm/an
PET
259mm
AET
173mm
Mean slope
3,1°
Water table
77cm
Forest
0%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)