HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #8080154270
Bassin de Deh-Cho - Mackenzie 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
134,6km²
Upstream area
1 631 456km²
Discharge
8 729,93m³/s
Mean elev.
47m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin · #8080158160834 km²
- Bassin de Deh-Cho - Mackenzie River408 km²
1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- Inuvik135.5 km²100.0% of basin
2 intersecting protected areas
Indigenous and Territorial Protected Area
67.18 km² overlap
Mackenzie River Islands
IUCN Not ApplicableConservation zone in regional land use plan
0.00 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
12 distinct species · 27 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°
-7,2°C
Annual rain
299mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,40
Runoff
258mm/an
PET
500mm
AET
269mm
Mean slope
1,0°
Water table
33cm
Forest
9%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)