HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #8080268920
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
1 629,4km²
Upstream area
7 738,5km²
Discharge
256,35m³/s
Mean elev.
1 491m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Chitina River964 km²
- Bassin de Chitina River502 km²
1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 1638.9 km²100.0% of basin
4 intersecting protected areas
Kluane / Wrangell-St Elias / Glacier Bay / Tatshenshini-Alsek
IUCN Not ApplicableWorld Heritage Site (natural or mixed)
1638.90 km² overlap
Wrangell-Saint Elias
IUCN IbWilderness Area
1388.63 km² overlap
Wrangell-St. Elias
IUCN VNational Preserve
976.86 km² overlap
Wrangell-St. Elias
IUCN IINational Park
661.59 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
216 distinct species · 378 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 47 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 : 33 espèces dont 1 patrimoniale (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 85 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 7.9%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 14 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°
-5,2°C
Annual rain
996mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,60
Runoff
1 054mm/an
PET
398mm
AET
389mm
Mean slope
19,9°
Water table
553cm
Forest
4%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
100%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)