HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #8080290970
Bassin de Tazin 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 2 administrative regions : Division No. 18, Fort Smith
Sub-basin area
339,9km²
Upstream area
9 445,1km²
Discharge
26,77m³/s
Mean elev.
362m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Tazin River342 km²
- Bassin de Tazin River139 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- Division No. 18335.8 km²98.2% of basin
- Fort Smith6.0 km²1.8% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Tazin Lake
IUCN IbRepresentative Area Ecological Reserve
9.72 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
9 distinct species · 9 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°
-4,0°C
Annual rain
357mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,31
Runoff
34mm/an
PET
521mm
AET
311mm
Mean slope
3,0°
Water table
72cm
Forest
75%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
3%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)