HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #8080263840
Bassin de Klu 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
1 290,5km²
Upstream area
15 447,9km²
Discharge
654,71m³/s
Mean elev.
1 022m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Tana River468 km²
- Bassin de Chitina River224 km²
1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 1298.0 km²100.0% of basin
4 intersecting protected areas
Kluane / Wrangell-St Elias / Glacier Bay / Tatshenshini-Alsek
IUCN Not ApplicableWorld Heritage Site (natural or mixed)
1298.01 km² overlap
Wrangell-St. Elias
IUCN IINational Park
1086.54 km² overlap
Wrangell-Saint Elias
IUCN IbWilderness Area
1086.53 km² overlap
Wrangell-St. Elias
IUCN VNational Preserve
211.48 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
209 distinct species · 650 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 Klu River : 29 espèces dont 1 patrimoniale (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 112 interactions GloBI sur 5 types (connectance 13.7%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 12 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°
-2,8°C
Annual rain
1 021mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,56
Runoff
712mm/an
PET
451mm
AET
427mm
Mean slope
16,9°
Water table
423cm
Forest
30%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
100%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)