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HydroATLAS version 1 (BasinATLAS / RiverATLAS / LakeATLAS)

Name: HydroATLAS version 1 (BasinATLAS / RiverATLAS / LakeATLAS)
Creator: WWF / McGill University (HydroSHEDS), hosted on Figshare
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

HydroATLAS version 1 (BasinATLAS / RiverATLAS / LakeATLAS) is an open dataset published by WWF / McGill University (HydroSHEDS), hosted on Figshare, under CC BY 4.0. It describes river networks. Coverage: global.

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What it describes

Habitat: River networks

Get the data

Go to https://www.hydrosheds.org/products/hydroatlas and download RiverATLAS (river reaches) and/or BasinATLAS (sub-basins) as Shapefile or Geodatabase zip (Figshare links). Spreadsheet URL is the HydroSHEDS core (v1.1 rasters) download page, which does not contain HydroATLAS / Linke et al. 2019.

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How to cite it

Linke, S., Lehner, B., et al. (2019). Global hydro-environmental sub-basin and river reach characteristics at high spatial resolution. Scientific Data 6: 283. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-019-0300-6