HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #8080234030
Bassin de Copper 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 : Valdez-Cordova
Sub-basin area
503,2km²
Upstream area
5 241,1km²
Discharge
59,05m³/s
Mean elev.
833m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Slana River1511 km²
- Bassin de Drop Creek408 km²
1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 506.2 km²100.0% of basin
3 intersecting protected areas
Kluane / Wrangell-St Elias / Glacier Bay / Tatshenshini-Alsek
IUCN Not ApplicableWorld Heritage Site (natural or mixed)
439.54 km² overlap
Wrangell-St. Elias
IUCN VNational Preserve
397.73 km² overlap
Wrangell-Saint Elias
IUCN IbWilderness Area
65.44 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
91 distinct species · 442 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 28 species (selected proportionally per kingdom among those with at least one documented interaction here) to keep the graph readable. Hover for details, click to explore the full ecosystem of a species.
ℹ️ The territory contains many more species than displayed and all their documented interactions: the graph is intentionally the structural skeleton (top-N species by composite local score, edges filtered by Serrano 2009 disparity filter α=0.2).
Indicateurs du tissu écologique
Tissu écologique de Bassin de Copper River : 19 espèces dont 1 patrimoniale (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 65 interactions GloBI sur 3 types (connectance 17.2%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 9 bulles taxonomiques (cascade genre/famille GloBI, ≥3 espèces).
Comparaison sur la connectance du réseau local complet vs distribution nationale (toutes les communes françaises).
Hydroclimate (BasinATLAS lev08)
Mean T°
-3,7°C
Annual rain
360mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,33
Runoff
369mm/an
PET
543mm
AET
316mm
Mean slope
5,5°
Water table
107cm
Forest
13%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
84%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)