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
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°
-12,3°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)