HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #8080170460
Bassin de Sahtúdé
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 : Fort Smith, Inuvik
Sub-basin area
1 271,3km²
Upstream area
128 377,6km²
Discharge
497,95m³/s
Mean elev.
151m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Sahtúdé901 km²
- Bassin de Sahtúdé226 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- Fort Smith839.3 km²65.6% of basin
- Inuvik440.4 km²34.4% of basin
2 intersecting protected areas
National Historic Site
98.08 km² overlap
Sentinel Islands
IUCN Not ApplicableConservation zone in regional land use plan
0.01 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
23 distinct species · 23 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°
-7,0°C
Annual rain
266mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,37
Runoff
187mm/an
PET
425mm
AET
244mm
Mean slope
0,2°
Water table
4cm
Forest
2%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
8%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)