HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #8080172590
Bassin de Contwoyto 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 2 administrative regions : Fort Smith, Kitikmeot
Sub-basin area
824,5km²
Upstream area
3 094,6km²
Discharge
14,36m³/s
Mean elev.
463m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin · #8080177240879 km²
- Bassin de Contwoyto River759 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 798.7 km²96.2% of basin
- Fort Smith31.2 km²3.8% of basin
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°
-12,3°C
Annual rain
247mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,19
Runoff
110mm/an
PET
306mm
AET
218mm
Mean slope
2,1°
Water table
83cm
Forest
1%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)