HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #8080206560
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
418,9km²
Upstream area
418,9km²
Discharge
3,43m³/s
Mean elev.
687m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- Fort Smith211.2 km²50.1% of basin
- Inuvik210.3 km²49.9% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Mountain Dene Land
IUCN Not ApplicableConservation zone in regional land use plan
186.16 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
0 distinct species · 0 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°
-7,0°C
Annual rain
397mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,17
Runoff
260mm/an
PET
477mm
AET
335mm
Mean slope
10,8°
Water table
226cm
Forest
0%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)