HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #8080310520
Bassin de Hay 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
743,2km²
Upstream area
4 315,4km²
Discharge
12,81m³/s
Mean elev.
408m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Little Buffalo River432 km²
- Bassin de Hay River396 km²
1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 747.1 km²100.0% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
HAY RIVER PROTECTED AREA
IUCN IIProtected Area
23.24 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°
-1,2°C
Annual rain
408mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,36
Runoff
65mm/an
PET
638mm
AET
355mm
Mean slope
0,5°
Water table
8cm
Forest
61%
Crops
2%
Urban
0%
Protected
3%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)