HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #8080293930
Bassin de Liard 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 : Northern Rockies
Sub-basin area
739,3km²
Upstream area
187 016,6km²
Discharge
1 727,77m³/s
Mean elev.
381m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Fort Nelson River2707 km²
- Bassin de Liard River45 km²
1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 743.4 km²100.0% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
2 distinct species · 2 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°
-1,4°C
Annual rain
454mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,27
Runoff
250mm/an
PET
620mm
AET
390mm
Mean slope
2,3°
Water table
26cm
Forest
85%
Crops
6%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)