HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #5080064540
Bassin de McArthur 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
2 067,5km²
Upstream area
2 067,5km²
Discharge
1,72m³/s
Mean elev.
23m
Administrative coverage
1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 1979.4 km²96.1% of basin
3 intersecting protected areas
Indigenous Protected Area
309.83 km² overlap
Indigenous Protected Area
54.00 km² overlap
Barranyi (North Island)
IUCN VNational Park
53.78 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
1 070 distinct species · 10 691 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 26 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 McArthur River : 18 espèces dont 1 patrimoniale (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 31 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 9.5%, 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
926mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,46
Runoff
305mm/an
PET
1 730mm
AET
756mm
Mean slope
0,6°
Water table
72cm
Forest
18%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
18%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)