HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #8080252560
Bassin de Swift 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 : Bethel
Sub-basin area
803,2km²
Upstream area
4 264,4km²
Discharge
75,31m³/s
Mean elev.
167m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Gagaryah River927 km²
- Bassin de Swift River651 km²
1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 808.0 km²100.0% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
9 distinct species · 11 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°
-2,1°C
Annual rain
528mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,05
Runoff
544mm/an
PET
500mm
AET
384mm
Mean slope
3,4°
Water table
52cm
Forest
5%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)