HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #8080216660
Bassin · #8080216660
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 : Keewatin
Sub-basin area
685km²
Upstream area
51 763,9km²
Discharge
269,19m³/s
Mean elev.
237m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin · #8080220440746 km²
- Bassin · #80802204505 km²
1 intersecting protected areas
Thelon Wildlife Sanctuary
IUCN IbWildlife Sanctuary
64.56 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°
-11,5°C
Annual rain
241mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,25
Runoff
197mm/an
PET
323mm
AET
219mm
Mean slope
1,4°
Water table
51cm
Forest
0%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
9%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)