HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #5080066880
Bassin de Escape 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 3 administrative regions : Cook, Northern Peninsula Area, Torres Strait Islands
Sub-basin area
4 459,7km²
Upstream area
4 459,7km²
Discharge
0,6m³/s
Mean elev.
40m
Administrative coverage
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 2558.6 km²57.6% of basin
- 1069.7 km²24.1% of basin
- 468.4 km²10.5% of basin
30 intersecting protected areas
Wuthathi
IUCN VIIndigenous Protected Area
816.75 km² overlap
Apudthama
IUCN IINational Park Aboriginal
806.98 km² overlap
Wuthathi
IUCN IIIndigenous Protected Area
339.63 km² overlap
Wuthathi (Shelburne Bay)
IUCN IINational Park Aboriginal
337.10 km² overlap
Escape River
IUCN VIFish Habitat Area (A)
209.50 km² overlap
Great Barrier Reef
IUCN Not ApplicableWorld Heritage Site (natural or mixed)
201.74 km² overlap
Bromley (Ampulin)
IUCN IINational Park Aboriginal
101.99 km² overlap
Great Barrier Reef
IUCN VIMarine Park
71.61 km² overlap
Great Barrier Reef Coast
IUCN VIMarine Park
70.08 km² overlap
21 more protected areassorted by overlap area
Great Barrier Reef
IUCN IIMarine Park
46.92 km² overlap
Great Barrier Reef Coast
IUCN IIMarine Park
44.98 km² overlap
Margaret Bay (Wuthathi)
IUCN VIFish Habitat Area (A)
40.80 km² overlap
Margaret Bay (Wuthathi)
IUCN VIFish Habitat Area (B)
34.07 km² overlap
Wuthathi
IUCN IIIndigenous Protected Area
25.33 km² overlap
Wuthathi
IUCN VIIndigenous Protected Area
25.20 km² overlap
Great Barrier Reef Coast
IUCN IVMarine Park
9.47 km² overlap
Great Barrier Reef
IUCN IVMarine Park
9.47 km² overlap
Wuthathi
IUCN IVIndigenous Protected Area
6.91 km² overlap
Possession Island
IUCN IINational Park
4.88 km² overlap
Great Barrier Reef
IUCN IaMarine Park
1.88 km² overlap
Great Barrier Reef Coast
IUCN IaMarine Park
1.88 km² overlap
National Park Aboriginal
1.31 km² overlap
Jardine River
IUCN IINational Park
1.18 km² overlap
National Park Aboriginal
0.69 km² overlap
Wuthathi (Saunders Islands)
IUCN IINational Park Aboriginal
0.63 km² overlap
Warraberalgal and Porumalgal
IUCN VIIndigenous Protected Area
0.59 km² overlap
Temple Bay
IUCN VIFish Habitat Area (A)
0.53 km² overlap
Haggerstone Island
IUCN VINature Refuge
0.40 km² overlap
Raine Island
IUCN IaNational Park (Scientific)
0.25 km² overlap
Round Island
IUCN IIIConservation Park
0.16 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
4 103 distinct species · 73 219 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 33 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 Escape River : 31 espèces reliées par 24 interactions GloBI sur 3 types (connectance 4.5%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 2 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°
26,3°C
Annual rain
1 732mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,17
Runoff
962mm/an
PET
1 432mm
AET
945mm
Mean slope
2,0°
Water table
108cm
Forest
80%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
33%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)