HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #8080271390
Bassin de Copper 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
365,1km²
Upstream area
59 455,3km²
Discharge
1 124,48m³/s
Mean elev.
859m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Tsina River1198 km²
- Bassin de Copper River306 km²
1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 367.2 km²100.0% of basin
3 intersecting protected areas
Kluane / Wrangell-St Elias / Glacier Bay / Tatshenshini-Alsek
IUCN Not ApplicableWorld Heritage Site (natural or mixed)
112.61 km² overlap
Wrangell-Saint Elias
IUCN IbWilderness Area
104.45 km² overlap
Wrangell-St. Elias
IUCN IINational Park
104.39 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
8 distinct species · 357 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 5 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 Copper River : 5 espèces reliées par 4 interactions GloBI sur 1 type (connectance 40.0%, 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°
-2,3°C
Annual rain
888mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,44
Runoff
1 228mm/an
PET
487mm
AET
426mm
Mean slope
21,1°
Water table
597cm
Forest
3%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
67%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)