HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #5080060770
Bassin de King Edward 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 : Wyndham-East Kimberley
Sub-basin area
461,8km²
Upstream area
8 480,8km²
Discharge
102,39m³/s
Mean elev.
106m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
Outlet (drains to ocean / endorheic)
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Carson River4443 km²
- Bassin de King Edward River135 km²
1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 460.1 km²100.0% of basin
2 intersecting protected areas
Uunguu
IUCN VIIndigenous Protected Area
73.49 km² overlap
North Kimberley
IUCN VIMarine Park
0.31 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
1 265 distinct species · 11 456 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 35 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 King Edward River : 29 espèces reliées par 33 interactions GloBI sur 3 types (connectance 5.0%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 8 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°
27,1°C
Annual rain
1 160mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,35
Runoff
413mm/an
PET
1 772mm
AET
911mm
Mean slope
3,0°
Water table
280cm
Forest
3%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)