HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #8080339250
Bassin de Athabasca 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 2 administrative regions : Division No. 13, Division No. 17
Sub-basin area
211,6km²
Upstream area
84 841,5km²
Discharge
470,41m³/s
Mean elev.
568m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Athabasca River991 km²
- Bassin de la Biche River201 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 140.6 km²66.1% of basin
- 72.0 km²33.9% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Wildland Provincial Park
0.00 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°
1,1°C
Annual rain
461mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,34
Runoff
112mm/an
PET
697mm
AET
398mm
Mean slope
1,1°
Water table
18cm
Forest
62%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)