National Park · nzl
Arthur's Pass National Park
- Area
- 1 186 km²
- IUCN cat.
- II
- Year
- 1952
Overview
- Designation
- National Park
- IUCN category
- II · Parc national
Écosystèmes préservés + récréation grand public
- Established
- 1952
- Managing authority
- Department of Conservation
Source : WDPA (UNEP-WCMC, World Database on Protected Areas).
Species present
3 601 distinct species · 83 901 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 46 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 Arthur's Pass National Park : 39 espèces dont 4 patrimoniales (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 65 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 6.3%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 7 bulles taxonomiques (cascade genre/famille GloBI, ≥3 espèces).
Comparaison sur la connectance du réseau local complet vs distribution nationale (toutes les communes françaises).
Hydrology6 basins · 1 lakes · 56 rivers
Hydrology metrics for this exact territory
Stream length here
444,6km
Lake surface here
0,27km²
Basins crossed
6
Max stream order
4
Max drainage
2 686km²
Discharge in basins
58,7m³/s
Mean precip.
3 021mm/an
Mean T°
7,3°C
Moisture idx
0,74
Max snow
28%
Mean runoff
2 102mm/an
Mean elev. (basins)
968m
Watersheds crossing here
- Bassin de Waimakariri Riversub-area674,2 km²overlap454.54 km²38%
- Bassin de Poulter Riversub-area517 km²overlap412.11 km²35%
- Bassin de Taramakau Riversub-area1 619,3 km²overlap313.10 km²26%
- Bassin de Wilberforce Riversub-area1 042,6 km²overlap3.30 km²0%
- Bassin de Hurunui Riversub-area2 686,2 km²overlap2.23 km²0%
- Bassin de Esk Riversub-area394,8 km²overlap0.57 km²0%
Lakes (1, top by area)
Rivers / streams (56, ord ≥ 4)
- Cox Riverord 3len here41.60 km100%total42 km
- Poulter Riverord 4len here38.40 km68%total57 km
- Waimakariri Riverord 5len here30.96 km14%total216 km
- Thompson Streamord 4len here19.68 km100%total20 km
- Deception Riverord 4len here19.62 km84%total23 km
- Edwards Riverord 3len here17.31 km100%total17 km
- Otehake Riverord 3len here15.89 km98%total16 km
- Bull Creekord 3len here15.68 km95%total16 km
- Bealey Riverord 3len here15.65 km88%total18 km
- Hawdon Riverord 4len here14.13 km72%total20 km
- Minchin Streamord 2len here13.78 km100%total14 km
- Andrews Streamord 2len here12.58 km82%total15 km
44 more river segmentssorted by Strahler order + length
- Mingha Riverord 2len here12.29 km100%total12 km
- Jordan Streamord 3len here11.33 km100%total11 km
- Crow Riverord 2len here10.59 km100%total11 km
- Ōtira Riverord 4len here10.33 km43%total24 km
- Poulter River East Branchord 3len here10.02 km81%total12 km
- Taramakau Riverord 4len here9.27 km7%total132 km
- Sudden Valley Streamord 2len here8.78 km99%total9 km
- Casey Streamord 2len here8.70 km100%total9 km
- Rolleston Riverord 2len here7.27 km97%total7 km
- East Hawdon Streamord 2len here6.56 km100%total7 km
- Otehake River East Branchord 2len here6.22 km100%total6 km
- Kellys Creekord 1len here5.75 km98%total6 km
- White Riverord 2len here5.73 km100%total6 km
- Anti Crow Riverord 1len here5.66 km100%total6 km
- Bruce Streamord 2len here5.39 km55%total10 km
- Koropuku Creekord 2len here5.11 km100%total5 km
- Trudge Streamord 2len here4.64 km100%total5 km
- Whaiti Streamord 2len here4.51 km100%total4 km
- Townsend Creekord 2len here4.30 km64%total7 km
- Greenlaw Creekord 1len here3.84 km100%total4 km
- Pfeiffer Creekord 1len here3.74 km100%total4 km
- Mount Brown Streamord 1len here3.69 km84%total4 km
- Otehake River West Branchord 1len here3.34 km100%total3 km
- Pete Streamord 2len here3.26 km86%total4 km
- Red Beech Streamord 1len here2.74 km56%total5 km
- Barrack Creekord 1len here2.37 km93%total3 km
- Peg Leg Creekord 1len here2.24 km96%total2 km
- Surprise Streamord 1len here2.23 km100%total2 km
- Upper Twin Creekord 1len here2.16 km97%total2 km
- Gorge Creekord 1len here2.06 km100%total2 km
- Holts Creekord 1len here2.00 km100%total2 km
- Discovery Streamord 2len here1.96 km100%total2 km
- Chasm Streamord 1len here1.54 km100%total2 km
- Campbell Creekord 1len here1.44 km100%total1 km
- McGrath Creekord 1len here1.30 km92%total1 km
- Rough Creekord 1len here1.22 km84%total1 km
- Paratu Streamord 1len here1.10 km84%total1 km
- Enchanted Streamord 2len here0.92 km101%total1 km
- Tutu Creekord 1len here0.86 km100%total1 km
- Tawhana Streamord 1len here0.86 km100%total1 km
- Taipoiti Riverord 1len here0.69 km101%total1 km
- Goat Creekord 1len here0.65 km42%total2 km
- Wardens Creekord 2len here0.62 km41%total2 km
- Riversdale Streamord 1len here0.04 km2%total2 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
- -42.89429, 171.76514
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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.