HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #8080270310
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
502,4km²
Upstream area
5 145,7km²
Discharge
188,38m³/s
Mean elev.
1 448m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin · #80802725701574 km²
- Bassin de Chitina River687 km²
1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 505.3 km²100.0% of basin
4 intersecting protected areas
Kluane / Wrangell-St Elias / Glacier Bay / Tatshenshini-Alsek
IUCN Not ApplicableWorld Heritage Site (natural or mixed)
505.30 km² overlap
Wrangell-Saint Elias
IUCN IbWilderness Area
505.30 km² overlap
Wrangell-St. Elias
IUCN IINational Park
380.68 km² overlap
Wrangell-St. Elias
IUCN VNational Preserve
124.62 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
77 distinct species · 193 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 26 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 : 14 espèces reliées par 60 interactions GloBI sur 3 types (connectance 14.8%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 15 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°
-5,1°C
Annual rain
1 049mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,62
Runoff
1 323mm/an
PET
396mm
AET
392mm
Mean slope
20,7°
Water table
558cm
Forest
1%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
99%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)