HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #8080201850
Bassin de Blackwater 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 314km²
Upstream area
1 314,1km²
Discharge
10,22m³/s
Mean elev.
477m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- Fort Smith667.7 km²50.5% of basin
- Inuvik654.7 km²49.5% of basin
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°
-6,7°C
Annual rain
331mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,30
Runoff
263mm/an
PET
477mm
AET
292mm
Mean slope
7,2°
Water table
126cm
Forest
7%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)