HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #8080167270
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
178,9km²
Upstream area
39 667,2km²
Discharge
167,66m³/s
Mean elev.
192m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Jervoise River938 km²
- Bassin de Warren River563 km²
1 intersecting protected areas
Thelon Wildlife Sanctuary
IUCN IbWildlife Sanctuary
83.13 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
Graphe en cours d’indexation
Calcul du tissu écologique de cette entité.
Le graphe apparaîtra automatiquement dès que le calcul est terminé (rafraîchissement toutes les 2s).
Hydroclimate (BasinATLAS lev08)
Mean T°
-12,7°C
Annual rain
189mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,32
Runoff
129mm/an
PET
277mm
AET
183mm
Mean slope
2,1°
Water table
82cm
Forest
0%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
46%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)