HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #8080293940
Bassin de Sandy Creek
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
702,7km²
Upstream area
702,7km²
Discharge
5,55m³/s
Mean elev.
475m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 706.7 km²100.0% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Protected Area
26.28 km² overlap
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°
-2,1°C
Annual rain
453mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,25
Runoff
249mm/an
PET
606mm
AET
389mm
Mean slope
1,1°
Water table
10cm
Forest
94%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
4%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)