HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #8080283230
Bassin de Skilak 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
569,4km²
Upstream area
569,4km²
Discharge
23,61m³/s
Mean elev.
930m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 572.6 km²100.0% of basin
3 intersecting protected areas
Kenai
IUCN IVNational Wildlife Refuge
391.88 km² overlap
Andrew Simons
IUCN IbWilderness Area
380.75 km² overlap
Kenai Fjords
IUCN IINational Park
180.85 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
292 distinct species · 943 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 49 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 Skilak River : 32 espèces reliées par 125 interactions GloBI sur 5 types (connectance 10.2%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 18 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°
-0,5°C
Annual rain
819mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,49
Runoff
1 300mm/an
PET
413mm
AET
354mm
Mean slope
13,3°
Water table
452cm
Forest
4%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
100%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)