HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #8080267640
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
224,2km²
Upstream area
8 544,9km²
Discharge
282,99m³/s
Mean elev.
643m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Chitina River1629 km²
- Bassin de Kiagna River582 km²
1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 225.5 km²100.0% of basin
4 intersecting protected areas
Kluane / Wrangell-St Elias / Glacier Bay / Tatshenshini-Alsek
IUCN Not ApplicableWorld Heritage Site (natural or mixed)
225.53 km² overlap
Wrangell-Saint Elias
IUCN IbWilderness Area
127.30 km² overlap
Wrangell-St. Elias
IUCN IINational Park
126.98 km² overlap
Wrangell-St. Elias
IUCN VNational Preserve
98.22 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
30 distinct species · 62 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 24 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 : 24 espèces dont 1 patrimoniale (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 28 interactions GloBI sur 3 types (connectance 10.1%, 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°
-1,2°C
Annual rain
1 195mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,60
Runoff
871mm/an
PET
475mm
AET
458mm
Mean slope
10,1°
Water table
206cm
Forest
36%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
100%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)