HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #8080188180
Bassin de Arctic Red 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
675,9km²
Upstream area
676km²
Discharge
5,41m³/s
Mean elev.
1 594m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- Inuvik672.9 km²98.9% of basin
- 7.4 km²1.1% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Peel Watershed LMU 9
IUCN Not ReportedTo Be Determined
4.96 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
1 distinct species · 5 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°
-10,4°C
Annual rain
357mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,07
Runoff
259mm/an
PET
386mm
AET
291mm
Mean slope
21,9°
Water table
446cm
Forest
0%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)