HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #8080187250
Bassin de Carcajou 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 : Inuvik
Sub-basin area
162,8km²
Upstream area
3 450km²
Discharge
28,27m³/s
Mean elev.
806m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Carcajou River1957 km²
- Bassin de Carcajou River1331 km²
1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- Inuvik163.8 km²100.0% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Mountain Dene Land
IUCN Not ApplicableConservation zone in regional land use plan
18.78 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
2 distinct species · 3 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°
-8,1°C
Annual rain
382mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,17
Runoff
264mm/an
PET
460mm
AET
323mm
Mean slope
11,2°
Water table
255cm
Forest
0%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)