HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #5080065780
Bassin de Gilbert 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 4 administrative regions : Carpentaria, Croydon, Etheridge, Tablelands
Sub-basin area
1 909,9km²
Upstream area
40 548,5km²
Discharge
180,02m³/s
Mean elev.
40m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
Outlet (drains to ocean / endorheic)
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Gilbert River623 km²
- Bassin de Einasleigh River120 km²
4 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 1847.3 km²97.0% of basin
- 55.4 km²2.9% of basin
- 0.8 km²0.0% of basin
- 0.0 km²0.0% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Staaten-Gilbert
IUCN VIFish Habitat Area (A)
4.76 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
362 distinct species · 1 458 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 30 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 Gilbert River : 22 espèces reliées par 30 interactions GloBI sur 2 types (connectance 6.5%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 9 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
917mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,52
Runoff
262mm/an
PET
1 907mm
AET
773mm
Mean slope
0,0°
Water table
5cm
Forest
31%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)