HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #8080298590
Bassin de Little Buffalo 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 : Division No. 16
Sub-basin area
393,6km²
Upstream area
393,6km²
Discharge
0,51m³/s
Mean elev.
306m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 395.8 km²100.0% of basin
3 intersecting protected areas
Wood Buffalo National Park
IUCN Not ApplicableWorld Heritage Site (natural or mixed)
395.76 km² overlap
National Park
395.76 km² overlap
Whooping Crane Summer Range
IUCN Not ReportedWetland of International Importance (Ramsar Site)
200.40 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°
-2,6°C
Annual rain
367mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,35
Runoff
23mm/an
PET
568mm
AET
320mm
Mean slope
0,3°
Water table
6cm
Forest
32%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
100%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)