HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #8080278510
Bassin de Kuskokwim 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 : Bethel
Sub-basin area
454,2km²
Upstream area
111 112,3km²
Discharge
1 463,02m³/s
Mean elev.
13m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Tubungaluk Creek687 km²
- Bassin de Church Slough46 km²
1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 446.7 km²97.8% of basin
2 intersecting protected areas
Yukon Delta
IUCN IVNational Wildlife Refuge
93.96 km² overlap
Marine Protected Area
92.73 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
439 distinct species · 22 311 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 31 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 Kuskokwim River : 16 espèces reliées par 72 interactions GloBI sur 6 types (connectance 14.5%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 16 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°
-1,3°C
Annual rain
418mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,05
Runoff
376mm/an
PET
440mm
AET
334mm
Mean slope
1,0°
Water table
27cm
Forest
0%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
100%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)