HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #8080285160
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
64,4km²
Upstream area
116 762,7km²
Discharge
1 509,49m³/s
Mean elev.
11m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Meroyuk River1445 km²
- Bassin de Kuskokwim River9 km²
1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 41.9 km²64.7% of basin
2 intersecting protected areas
Marine Protected Area
55.36 km² overlap
Yukon Delta
IUCN IVNational Wildlife Refuge
55.36 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
1 distinct species · 1 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Not enough documented interactions to build a meaningful graph for this territory.
Hydroclimate (BasinATLAS lev08)
Mean T°
-0,9°C
Annual rain
533mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,20
Runoff
385mm/an
PET
427mm
AET
350mm
Mean slope
0,4°
Water table
0cm
Forest
0%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
100%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)