HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #5080064130
Bassin de Roper 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 : Roper Gulf
Sub-basin area
154,1km²
Upstream area
77 474,2km²
Discharge
296,8m³/s
Mean elev.
6m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
Outlet (drains to ocean / endorheic)
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Roper River5464 km²
- Bassin de Roper River571 km²
1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 153.5 km²100.0% of basin
2 intersecting protected areas
South-East Arnhem Land
IUCN VIIndigenous Protected Area
94.34 km² overlap
Limmen
IUCN VNational Park
12.34 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
122 distinct species · 398 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 Roper River : 25 espèces reliées par 24 interactions GloBI sur 2 types (connectance 5.9%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 4 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°
27,5°C
Annual rain
933mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,51
Runoff
248mm/an
PET
1 902mm
AET
788mm
Mean slope
0,5°
Water table
26cm
Forest
13%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
8%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)