HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #8080183040
Bassin de McKeand 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 1 administrative regions : Baffin
Sub-basin area
406,2km²
Upstream area
5 504,4km²
Discharge
79,79m³/s
Mean elev.
482m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Nuvungmiut River236 km²
- Bassin de McKeand River123 km²
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
2 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°
-11,9°C
Annual rain
440mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,51
Runoff
432mm/an
PET
214mm
AET
202mm
Mean slope
4,2°
Water table
108cm
Forest
0%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)