HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #8080287300
Bassin de Yates 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 : Fort Smith
Sub-basin area
54,6km²
Upstream area
3 090,1km²
Discharge
7,41m³/s
Mean elev.
261m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Yates River1061 km²
- Bassin de Yates River276 km²
1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- Fort Smith54.9 km²100.0% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Whooping Crane Summer Range
IUCN Not ReportedWetland of International Importance (Ramsar Site)
34.33 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
0 distinct species · 0 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°
-3,2°C
Annual rain
360mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,35
Runoff
74mm/an
PET
553mm
AET
315mm
Mean slope
0,2°
Water table
2cm
Forest
4%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)