HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #8080241450
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
149km²
Upstream area
9 516,3km²
Discharge
114,47m³/s
Mean elev.
575m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Tulsona Creek379 km²
- Bassin de Copper River232 km²
1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 149.9 km²100.0% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Kluane / Wrangell-St Elias / Glacier Bay / Tatshenshini-Alsek
IUCN Not ApplicableWorld Heritage Site (natural or mixed)
49.85 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
94 distinct species · 362 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 32 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 : 21 espèces dont 2 patrimoniales (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 72 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 14.5%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 11 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°
-3,3°C
Annual rain
289mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,49
Runoff
351mm/an
PET
563mm
AET
264mm
Mean slope
3,5°
Water table
78cm
Forest
44%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
23%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)