HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #5080068140
Bassin de Herbert 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 2 administrative regions : Cassowary Coast, Hinchinbrook
Sub-basin area
269,4km²
Upstream area
8 922,6km²
Discharge
119,76m³/s
Mean elev.
77m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
Outlet (drains to ocean / endorheic)
▲ Receives from 2 basins
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 267.9 km²99.7% of basin
- 0.7 km²0.3% of basin
10 intersecting protected areas
Girringun
IUCN IINational Park
58.09 km² overlap
Girringun
IUCN IIIIndigenous Protected Area
58.08 km² overlap
Girringun
IUCN IVIndigenous Protected Area
10.56 km² overlap
Wet Tropics of Queensland
IUCN Not ApplicableWorld Heritage Site (natural or mixed)
8.77 km² overlap
Hinchinbrook
IUCN VIFish Habitat Area (A)
7.36 km² overlap
Great Barrier Reef Coast
IUCN VIMarine Park
6.84 km² overlap
Halifax
IUCN VIFish Habitat Area (B)
4.48 km² overlap
Girringun
IUCN VIIndigenous Protected Area
0.37 km² overlap
Great Barrier Reef
IUCN Not ApplicableWorld Heritage Site (natural or mixed)
0.37 km² overlap
1 more protected areassorted by overlap area
Benaiah
IUCN VINature Refuge
0.32 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
1 141 distinct species · 7 170 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 37 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 Herbert River : 35 espèces reliées par 28 interactions GloBI sur 3 types (connectance 4.2%, 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°
23,9°C
Annual rain
2 035mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,24
Runoff
788mm/an
PET
1 543mm
AET
1 163mm
Mean slope
4,3°
Water table
216cm
Forest
100%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
27%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)