HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #8080256380
Bassin de Skwentna 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 3 administrative regions : Bethel, Kenai Peninsula, Matanuska-Susitna
Sub-basin area
626,6km²
Upstream area
626,8km²
Discharge
26,36m³/s
Mean elev.
1 472m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 513.5 km²81.5% of basin
- 62.3 km²9.9% of basin
- 54.6 km²8.7% of basin
2 intersecting protected areas
Lake Clark
IUCN VNational Preserve
7.53 km² overlap
Jay S. Hammond
IUCN IbWilderness Area
0.39 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
0 distinct species · 0 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°
-5,6°C
Annual rain
537mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,29
Runoff
1 319mm/an
PET
380mm
AET
317mm
Mean slope
23,7°
Water table
640cm
Forest
0%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
2%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)