HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #5080056740
Bassin de Murchison 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 1 administrative regions : Northampton
Sub-basin area
523,7km²
Upstream area
65 654,1km²
Discharge
21,9m³/s
Mean elev.
138m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
Outlet (drains to ocean / endorheic)
▲ Receives from 11 basins
- Bassin · #50800888205541 km²
- Bassin · #50800913401421 km²
- Bassin de Murchison River1146 km²
- Bassin de Murchison River925 km²
- Bassin · #5080093180829 km²
- + 6 more
1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 520.6 km²99.6% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Kalbarri
IUCN IINational Park
241.17 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
1 397 distinct species · 8 793 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 29 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 Bassin de Murchison River : 23 espèces reliées par 34 interactions GloBI sur 3 types (connectance 6.1%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 11 bulles taxonomiques (cascade genre/famille GloBI, ≥3 espèces).
Comparaison sur la connectance du réseau local complet vs distribution nationale (toutes les communes françaises).
Hydroclimate (BasinATLAS lev08)
Mean T°
20,3°C
Annual rain
379mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,76
Runoff
32mm/an
PET
1 588mm
AET
320mm
Mean slope
2,0°
Water table
682cm
Forest
10%
Crops
1%
Urban
0%
Protected
46%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)