HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #8080189710
Bassin de Big Smith Creek
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
1 038,1km²
Upstream area
1 038,1km²
Discharge
8,14m³/s
Mean elev.
366m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- Inuvik1044.8 km²100.0% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
49 distinct species · 119 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°
-6,9°C
Annual rain
327mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,30
Runoff
255mm/an
PET
467mm
AET
288mm
Mean slope
2,2°
Water table
30cm
Forest
10%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)