HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #8080200930
Bassin de North McQuesten 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 : Yukon
Sub-basin area
560,2km²
Upstream area
560,3km²
Discharge
5,37m³/s
Mean elev.
1 288m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
7 distinct species · 7 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°
-7,2°C
Annual rain
307mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,33
Runoff
303mm/an
PET
461mm
AET
274mm
Mean slope
17,0°
Water table
371cm
Forest
7%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)