HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #8080171270
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 1 administrative regions : Inuvik
Sub-basin area
489,9km²
Upstream area
140 923,3km²
Discharge
542,19m³/s
Mean elev.
159m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Sahtúdé1271 km²
- Bassin de Sahtúdé1148 km²
1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- Inuvik493.2 km²100.0% of basin
2 intersecting protected areas
National Historic Site
6.99 km² overlap
Sentinel Islands
IUCN Not ApplicableConservation zone in regional land use plan
0.10 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
Not enough documented interactions to build a meaningful graph for this territory.
Hydroclimate (BasinATLAS lev08)
Mean T°
-7,0°C
Annual rain
269mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,37
Runoff
194mm/an
PET
429mm
AET
246mm
Mean slope
0,2°
Water table
1cm
Forest
1%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
1%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)