HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #8080166820
Bassin · #8080166820
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
1 088km²
Upstream area
1 088,1km²
Discharge
7,2m³/s
Mean elev.
293m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- Inuvik1095.3 km²100.0% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Whitefish River
IUCN Not ApplicableConservation zone in regional land use plan
834.75 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°
-7,9°C
Annual rain
278mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,33
Runoff
224mm/an
PET
413mm
AET
251mm
Mean slope
1,7°
Water table
20cm
Forest
31%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)