HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #8080262720
Bassin de Chitistone 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
639,2km²
Upstream area
639,2km²
Discharge
12,74m³/s
Mean elev.
1 775m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 642.9 km²100.0% of basin
4 intersecting protected areas
Kluane / Wrangell-St Elias / Glacier Bay / Tatshenshini-Alsek
IUCN Not ApplicableWorld Heritage Site (natural or mixed)
642.93 km² overlap
Wrangell-St. Elias
IUCN IINational Park
641.18 km² overlap
Wrangell-Saint Elias
IUCN IbWilderness Area
569.58 km² overlap
Wrangell-St. Elias
IUCN VNational Preserve
1.75 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
161 distinct species · 381 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 42 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 Chitistone River : 29 espèces reliées par 95 interactions GloBI sur 3 types (connectance 9.6%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 16 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°
-7,1°C
Annual rain
735mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,48
Runoff
638mm/an
PET
385mm
AET
363mm
Mean slope
25,6°
Water table
791cm
Forest
0%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
99%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)