HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #8080280480
Bassin de Killey 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 : Kenai Peninsula
Sub-basin area
1 021,6km²
Upstream area
3 924,9km²
Discharge
151,84m³/s
Mean elev.
490m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Kenai River1135 km²
- Bassin de Skilak River569 km²
1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 1027.4 km²100.0% of basin
4 intersecting protected areas
Kenai
IUCN IVNational Wildlife Refuge
955.07 km² overlap
Andrew Simons
IUCN IbWilderness Area
766.86 km² overlap
Kenai Fjords
IUCN IINational Park
5.75 km² overlap
Watershed
1.18 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
993 distinct species · 17 478 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 48 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 Killey River : 33 espèces dont 2 patrimoniales (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 134 interactions GloBI sur 6 types (connectance 11.9%, 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°
0,7°C
Annual rain
677mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,31
Runoff
827mm/an
PET
458mm
AET
363mm
Mean slope
9,3°
Water table
338cm
Forest
30%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
92%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)