HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #8080240870
Bassin de Pelly 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, Yukon
Sub-basin area
913,3km²
Upstream area
913,3km²
Discharge
14,91m³/s
Mean elev.
1 360m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 896.7 km²97.6% of basin
- Fort Smith22.2 km²2.4% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
National Park
24.53 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
7 distinct species · 9 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°
-7,3°C
Annual rain
499mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,10
Runoff
488mm/an
PET
447mm
AET
349mm
Mean slope
14,4°
Water table
308cm
Forest
3%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
3%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)