HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #8080263100
Bassin de Chitina 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
760,1km²
Upstream area
20 836,9km²
Discharge
735,68m³/s
Mean elev.
730m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Lakina River406 km²
- Bassin de Chitina River6 km²
1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 764.6 km²100.0% of basin
4 intersecting protected areas
Kluane / Wrangell-St Elias / Glacier Bay / Tatshenshini-Alsek
IUCN Not ApplicableWorld Heritage Site (natural or mixed)
764.60 km² overlap
Wrangell-St. Elias
IUCN VNational Preserve
443.96 km² overlap
Wrangell-Saint Elias
IUCN IbWilderness Area
421.53 km² overlap
Wrangell-St. Elias
IUCN IINational Park
309.48 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
201 distinct species · 1 412 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 46 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 Chitina River : 31 espèces reliées par 91 interactions GloBI sur 5 types (connectance 7.7%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 18 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°
-1,8°C
Annual rain
923mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,46
Runoff
503mm/an
PET
496mm
AET
442mm
Mean slope
13,5°
Water table
406cm
Forest
30%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
97%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)