HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #8080196880
Bassin de Redstone 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 : Fort Smith, Inuvik
Sub-basin area
1 429,3km²
Upstream area
16 051,9km²
Discharge
180,03m³/s
Mean elev.
470m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Redstone River940 km²
- Bassin de Redstone River419 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- Fort Smith785.7 km²54.6% of basin
- Inuvik652.7 km²45.4% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Mountain Dene Land
IUCN Not ApplicableConservation zone in regional land use plan
63.53 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
3 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°
-6,5°C
Annual rain
375mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,23
Runoff
264mm/an
PET
490mm
AET
321mm
Mean slope
7,0°
Water table
134cm
Forest
19%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)