HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #8080263280
Bassin de McCarthy Creek
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
956,4km²
Upstream area
956,4km²
Discharge
16,69m³/s
Mean elev.
1 568m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 962.1 km²100.0% of basin
4 intersecting protected areas
Kluane / Wrangell-St Elias / Glacier Bay / Tatshenshini-Alsek
IUCN Not ApplicableWorld Heritage Site (natural or mixed)
962.11 km² overlap
Wrangell-Saint Elias
IUCN IbWilderness Area
589.01 km² overlap
Wrangell-St. Elias
IUCN IINational Park
483.85 km² overlap
Wrangell-St. Elias
IUCN VNational Preserve
443.77 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
586 distinct species · 5 296 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 41 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 McCarthy Creek : 24 espèces dont 1 patrimoniale (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 114 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 12.6%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 19 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°
-5,9°C
Annual rain
730mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,43
Runoff
541mm/an
PET
417mm
AET
377mm
Mean slope
20,3°
Water table
467cm
Forest
4%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
88%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)