HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #5080067470
Bassin de Birthday Creek
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 : Cook
Sub-basin area
1 426km²
Upstream area
1 426,1km²
Discharge
23,85m³/s
Mean elev.
51m
Administrative coverage
1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 1420.8 km²100.0% of basin
7 intersecting protected areas
Cape Melville
IUCN IINational Park Aboriginal
272.16 km² overlap
Kalpowar
IUCN VINature Refuge
92.38 km² overlap
Muundhi (Jack River)
IUCN IINational Park Aboriginal
25.83 km² overlap
Princess Charlotte Bay
IUCN VIFish Habitat Area (A)
23.30 km² overlap
Great Barrier Reef
IUCN Not ApplicableWorld Heritage Site (natural or mixed)
0.05 km² overlap
Great Barrier Reef
IUCN VIMarine Park
0.05 km² overlap
Great Barrier Reef Coast
IUCN VIMarine Park
0.04 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
545 distinct species · 2 960 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 32 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 Birthday Creek : 25 espèces dont 1 patrimoniale (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 30 interactions GloBI sur 3 types (connectance 6.0%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 7 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°
25,9°C
Annual rain
1 198mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,28
Runoff
535mm/an
PET
1 657mm
AET
904mm
Mean slope
1,6°
Water table
100cm
Forest
62%
Crops
3%
Urban
0%
Protected
29%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)