HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #8080242510
Bassin de Sanford 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
71,4km²
Upstream area
10 701km²
Discharge
127,2m³/s
Mean elev.
554m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Sanford River1113 km²
- Bassin de Copper River149 km²
1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 71.9 km²100.0% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Kluane / Wrangell-St Elias / Glacier Bay / Tatshenshini-Alsek
IUCN Not ApplicableWorld Heritage Site (natural or mixed)
20.70 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
190 distinct species · 1 228 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 35 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 Sanford River : 17 espèces dont 1 patrimoniale (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 114 interactions GloBI sur 5 types (connectance 18.1%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 19 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°
-3,2°C
Annual rain
282mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,50
Runoff
334mm/an
PET
563mm
AET
258mm
Mean slope
3,3°
Water table
110cm
Forest
48%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)