HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #8080256240
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
231,5km²
Upstream area
29 472,9km²
Discharge
400,63m³/s
Mean elev.
427m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Nadina River694 km²
- Bassin de Dadina River464 km²
1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 232.9 km²100.0% of basin
2 intersecting protected areas
Kluane / Wrangell-St Elias / Glacier Bay / Tatshenshini-Alsek
IUCN Not ApplicableWorld Heritage Site (natural or mixed)
27.41 km² overlap
Wrangell-St. Elias
IUCN VNational Preserve
26.53 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
76 distinct species · 641 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 30 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 : 23 espèces dont 2 patrimoniales (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 52 interactions GloBI sur 3 types (connectance 12.0%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 7 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°
-2,2°C
Annual rain
436mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,24
Runoff
353mm/an
PET
574mm
AET
362mm
Mean slope
5,7°
Water table
125cm
Forest
81%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
12%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)