HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #8080315190
Bassin de Swift Current 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 : Division No. 16
Sub-basin area
664km²
Upstream area
664km²
Discharge
0,82m³/s
Mean elev.
444m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 667.5 km²100.0% of basin
4 intersecting protected areas
Wood Buffalo National Park
IUCN Not ApplicableWorld Heritage Site (natural or mixed)
620.02 km² overlap
National Park
620.01 km² overlap
Wildland Provincial Park
43.80 km² overlap
Kitaskino Nuwenëné Wildland
IUCN IbWildland Provincial Park
3.66 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°
-1,9°C
Annual rain
418mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,31
Runoff
35mm/an
PET
607mm
AET
361mm
Mean slope
2,3°
Water table
28cm
Forest
89%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
93%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)