HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #8080226300
Bassin de Root 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 : Fort Smith
Sub-basin area
314,6km²
Upstream area
1 850,1km²
Discharge
21,59m³/s
Mean elev.
969m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Root River1059 km²
- Bassin de Root River476 km²
1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- Fort Smith316.5 km²100.0% of basin
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°
-7,4°C
Annual rain
439mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,03
Runoff
322mm/an
PET
455mm
AET
347mm
Mean slope
20,9°
Water table
413cm
Forest
0%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)