HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #8080158670
Bassin · #8080158670
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
1 660,3km²
Upstream area
1 660,3km²
Discharge
16,97m³/s
Mean elev.
710m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 1581.8 km²94.6% of basin
- Inuvik89.6 km²5.4% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Peel Watershed LMU 9
IUCN Not ReportedTo Be Determined
1606.11 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
4 distinct species · 4 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°
-8,1°C
Annual rain
317mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,29
Runoff
322mm/an
PET
446mm
AET
278mm
Mean slope
8,6°
Water table
200cm
Forest
6%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)