HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #8080263670
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
5,8km²
Upstream area
19 671km²
Discharge
731,69m³/s
Mean elev.
360m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Klu River1291 km²
- Bassin de Nizina River98 km²
1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 5.8 km²100.0% of basin
4 intersecting protected areas
Kluane / Wrangell-St Elias / Glacier Bay / Tatshenshini-Alsek
IUCN Not ApplicableWorld Heritage Site (natural or mixed)
5.80 km² overlap
Wrangell-St. Elias
IUCN VNational Preserve
3.11 km² overlap
Wrangell-Saint Elias
IUCN IbWilderness Area
2.07 km² overlap
Wrangell-St. Elias
IUCN IINational Park
2.07 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
5 distinct species · 53 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 3 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 : 3 espèces reliées par 2 interactions GloBI sur 1 type (connectance 66.7%, filtre Serrano α=0.2).
Comparaison sur la connectance du réseau local complet vs distribution nationale (toutes les communes françaises).
Hydroclimate (BasinATLAS lev08)
Mean T°
-0,2°C
Annual rain
1 047mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,50
Runoff
505mm/an
PET
524mm
AET
473mm
Mean slope
7,9°
Water table
338cm
Forest
39%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
100%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)