HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #8080175960
Bassin · #8080175960
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
102km²
Upstream area
145 220,3km²
Discharge
517,77m³/s
Mean elev.
159m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Sahtúdé2552 km²
- Bassin · #8080175970125 km²
1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- Inuvik102.7 km²100.0% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Whitefish River
IUCN Not ApplicableConservation zone in regional land use plan
0.38 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°
-6,9°C
Annual rain
278mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,37
Runoff
217mm/an
PET
439mm
AET
253mm
Mean slope
0,3°
Water table
2cm
Forest
0%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)