HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #8080178190
Bassin · #8080178190
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
549,3km²
Upstream area
5 156,2km²
Discharge
43,32m³/s
Mean elev.
217m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Whitefish River1872 km²
- Bassin · #808017085071 km²
1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- Inuvik552.9 km²100.0% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Whitefish River
IUCN Not ApplicableConservation zone in regional land use plan
32.56 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
1 distinct species · 2 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°
-7,1°C
Annual rain
291mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,34
Runoff
241mm/an
PET
444mm
AET
262mm
Mean slope
1,2°
Water table
13cm
Forest
9%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)