HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #8080181860
Bassin de Yukon 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 across 2 countries : Southeast Fairbanks, Yukon
Sub-basin area
261,9km²
Upstream area
288 471,7km²
Discharge
2 430,54m³/s
Mean elev.
500m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Mission Creek608 km²
- Bassin de Eagle Creek66 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 216.0 km²81.9% of basin
- 47.7 km²18.1% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Yukon-charley Rivers
IUCN VNational Preserve
5.95 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
155 distinct species · 380 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 38 species (selected proportionally per kingdom among those with at least one documented interaction here) to keep the graph readable. Hover for details, click to explore the full ecosystem of a species.
ℹ️ The territory contains many more species than displayed and all their documented interactions: the graph is intentionally the structural skeleton (top-N species by composite local score, edges filtered by Serrano 2009 disparity filter α=0.2).
Indicateurs du tissu écologique
Tissu écologique de Bassin de Yukon River : 25 espèces reliées par 143 interactions GloBI sur 5 types (connectance 17.4%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 16 bulles taxonomiques (cascade genre/famille GloBI, ≥3 espèces).
Comparaison sur la connectance du réseau local complet vs distribution nationale (toutes les communes françaises).
Hydroclimate (BasinATLAS lev08)
Mean T°
-5,8°C
Annual rain
277mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,49
Runoff
180mm/an
PET
546mm
AET
256mm
Mean slope
12,4°
Water table
265cm
Forest
33%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
2%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)