HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #8080315060
Bassin de Birch 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
604,8km²
Upstream area
11 456,2km²
Discharge
33,57m³/s
Mean elev.
304m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Alice Creek728 km²
- Bassin de Peel Creek365 km²
1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 608.0 km²100.0% of basin
3 intersecting protected areas
National Park
602.46 km² overlap
Wood Buffalo National Park
IUCN Not ApplicableWorld Heritage Site (natural or mixed)
602.46 km² overlap
Wildland Provincial Park
5.55 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°
-1,3°C
Annual rain
399mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,36
Runoff
35mm/an
PET
626mm
AET
348mm
Mean slope
0,7°
Water table
6cm
Forest
53%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
99%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)