National Park · nzl
Aoraki Mount Cook National Park
- Area
- 723 km²
- IUCN cat.
- II
- Year
- 1953
Overview
- Designation
- National Park
- IUCN category
- II · Parc national
Écosystèmes préservés + récréation grand public
- Established
- 1953
- Managing authority
- Department of Conservation
Source : WDPA (UNEP-WCMC, World Database on Protected Areas).
Species present
1 132 distinct species · 15 543 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 41 species (selected proportionally per kingdom among those with at least one documented interaction here) to keep the graph readable. Hover for details, click to explore the full ecosystem of a species.
ℹ️ The territory contains many more species than displayed and all their documented interactions: the graph is intentionally the structural skeleton (top-N species by composite local score, edges filtered by Serrano 2009 disparity filter α=0.2).
Indicateurs du tissu écologique
Tissu écologique de Aoraki Mount Cook National Park : 32 espèces dont 3 patrimoniales (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 54 interactions GloBI sur 5 types (connectance 6.6%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 9 bulles taxonomiques (cascade genre/famille GloBI, ≥3 espèces).
Comparaison sur la connectance du réseau local complet vs distribution nationale (toutes les communes françaises).
Hydrology11 basins · 7 lakes · 17 rivers
Hydrology metrics for this exact territory
Stream length here
156,5km
Lake surface here
9,23km²
Basins crossed
11
Max stream order
4
Max drainage
2 020km²
Discharge in basins
51,4m³/s
Mean precip.
2 528mm/an
Mean T°
5,9°C
Moisture idx
0,57
Max snow
37%
Mean runoff
2 331mm/an
Mean elev. (basins)
1 274m
Watersheds crossing here
- Bassin de Murchison Riversub-area1 431,7 km²overlap538.42 km²75%
- Bassin de Godley Riversub-area443,8 km²overlap174.23 km²24%
- Bassin de Whataroa Riversub-area596,9 km²overlap3.13 km²0%
- Bassin de Dobson Riversub-area1 828,8 km²overlap2.92 km²0%
- Bassin de Cook River / Wehekasub-area381,7 km²overlap1.21 km²0%
- Bassin de Rangitata Riversub-area2 019,6 km²overlap1.07 km²0%
- Bassin de Karangarua Riversub-area411,9 km²overlap0.60 km²0%
- Bassin de Landsborough Riversub-area1 343,5 km²overlap0.38 km²0%
- Bassin de Cass Riversub-area308,6 km²overlap0.34 km²0%
Lakes (7, top by area)
Rivers / streams (17, ord ≥ 4)
- Murchison Riverord 4len here41.61 km100%total42 km
- Godley Riverord 3len here40.68 km67%total61 km
- Black Birch Streamord 3len here14.05 km84%total17 km
- Blue Streamord 2len here8.77 km100%total9 km
- Hooker Riverord 3len here8.19 km100%total8 km
- McKinnon Streamord 1len here7.44 km76%total10 km
- Irish Creekord 2len here6.60 km100%total7 km
- Tasman Riverord 4len here4.96 km13%total38 km
- Kitchener Creekord 2len here4.38 km98%total4 km
- FitzGerald Streamord 1len here4.01 km100%total4 km
- Gorilla Streamord 2len here3.96 km41%total10 km
- Husky Streamord 3len here3.50 km100%total4 km
Live spatial overlap (cached after first hit) · HydroBASINS lev08 × HydroLAKES × HydroRIVERS v10
Location
Fond cartographique : OpenFreeMap · © OpenStreetMap contributors · Géométrie : nos sources (GADM/HydroBASINS/HydroLAKES/HydroRIVERS/WDPA)
- Centroid
- -43.60498, 170.24098
- Open in maps
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Species observed (Phase 2)
Listing species observed within this protected area requires the GBIF v2 partition × WDPA spatial overlay matview. Computing infrastructure pending.