Indigenous Protected Area · aus
Arafura Swamp
- Area
- 13 273 km²
- IUCN cat.
- VI
- Year
- 2025
Overview
- Designation
- Indigenous Protected Area
- IUCN category
- VI · Aire protégée avec utilisation durable
Conservation + utilisation durable des ressources
- Established
- 2025
- Managing authority
- AU-IMG
Source : WDPA (UNEP-WCMC, World Database on Protected Areas).
Species present
2 574 distinct species · 50 293 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 37 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 Arafura Swamp : 27 espèces reliées par 43 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 6.5%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 10 bulles taxonomiques (cascade genre/famille GloBI, ≥3 espèces).
Comparaison sur la connectance du réseau local complet vs distribution nationale (toutes les communes françaises).
Hydrology22 basins · 18 lakes · 6 rivers
Hydrology metrics for this exact territory
Stream length here
127,5km
Lake surface here
7,71km²
Basins crossed
22
Max stream order
5
Max drainage
10 417km²
Discharge in basins
649,6m³/s
Mean precip.
1 196mm/an
Mean T°
26,9°C
Moisture idx
-0,29
Mean runoff
548mm/an
Mean elev. (basins)
75m
Watersheds crossing here
- Bassin de Badalngarrmirri Creeksub-area2 302,4 km²overlap2288.96 km²17%
- Basin #63840sub-area2 607,3 km²overlap1804.31 km²14%
- Basin #24400sub-area1 360 km²overlap1240.03 km²9%
- Basin #63910sub-area2 286 km²overlap1092.16 km²8%
- Basin #26070sub-area1 077,9 km²overlap872.19 km²7%
- Basin #23870sub-area833,3 km²overlap830.10 km²6%
- Bassin de Woolen Riversub-area886,2 km²overlap797.59 km²6%
- Basin #63120sub-area1 446,7 km²overlap755.42 km²6%
- Bassin de Glyde Riversub-area735,6 km²overlap732.72 km²6%
13 more basinssorted by overlap
- Basin #24180sub-area643,2 km²overlap540.14 km²4%
- Basin #63270sub-area2 142,3 km²overlap379.55 km²3%
- Basin #23880sub-area318,5 km²overlap317.30 km²2%
- Basin #23740sub-area1 204,1 km²overlap263.11 km²2%
- Bassin de Woolen Riversub-area245,9 km²overlap244.94 km²2%
- Basin #23730sub-area239,4 km²overlap238.48 km²2%
- Basin #22840sub-area708,1 km²overlap216.90 km²2%
- Basin #24170sub-area1 074,1 km²overlap209.98 km²2%
- Basin #63400sub-area880,5 km²overlap85.66 km²1%
- Basin #27430sub-area166,5 km²overlap60.55 km²0%
- Basin #26080sub-area58 km²overlap18.56 km²0%
- Basin #26260sub-area865,6 km²overlap1.54 km²0%
- Basin #63850sub-area647,8 km²overlap0.63 km²0%
Lakes (18, top by area)
- Lake #81931area1,7 km²avg depth1.8 m
- Lac 1411668area0,8 km²avg depth1.4 m
- Lac 1412004area0,7 km²avg depth3.5 m
- Lac 1412032area0,6 km²avg depth2.5 m
- Lac 1411687area0,5 km²avg depth1.4 m
- Lac 1411734area0,4 km²avg depth3.1 m
- Lac 1411742area0,4 km²avg depth3.2 m
- Lac 1411664area0,4 km²avg depth1.9 m
- Lac 1411715area0,4 km²avg depth2.3 m
9 more lakes
- Lac 1411689area0,3 km²avg depth1.5 m
- Lac 1411679area0,3 km²avg depth1.3 m
- Lac 1411671area0,3 km²avg depth1.5 m
- Lac 1411970area0,2 km²avg depth2.7 m
- Lac 1411717area0,2 km²avg depth2.6 m
- Lac 1411690area0,2 km²avg depth1.1 m
- Lac 1411738area0,2 km²avg depth2.3 m
- Lac 1411993area0,2 km²avg depth3.3 m
- Lac 1411686area0,2 km²avg depth1.0 m
Rivers / streams (6, ord ≥ 4)
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
- -12.87480, 135.20920
- 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.