HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #8080177890
Bassin de Snake 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 : Inuvik, Yukon
Sub-basin area
764,2km²
Upstream area
764,2km²
Discharge
8,43m³/s
Mean elev.
1 474m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 716.2 km²93.1% of basin
- Inuvik53.0 km²6.9% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Peel Watershed LMU 9
IUCN Not ReportedTo Be Determined
743.68 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
6 distinct species · 6 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°
-9,8°C
Annual rain
328mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,16
Runoff
346mm/an
PET
393mm
AET
280mm
Mean slope
24,5°
Water table
590cm
Forest
0%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)