HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #5080068880
Bassin de Blackrock 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 2 administrative regions : Mackay, Whitsunday
Sub-basin area
514,8km²
Upstream area
514,8km²
Discharge
5,51m³/s
Mean elev.
59m
Administrative coverage
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 486.2 km²94.7% of basin
- 0.0 km²0.0% of basin
10 intersecting protected areas
Great Barrier Reef Coast
IUCN VIMarine Park
58.62 km² overlap
Repulse
IUCN VIFish Habitat Area (A)
35.01 km² overlap
Great Barrier Reef
IUCN Not ApplicableWorld Heritage Site (natural or mixed)
28.66 km² overlap
Midge
IUCN VIFish Habitat Area (B)
23.74 km² overlap
Eungella
IUCN IINational Park
19.75 km² overlap
Great Barrier Reef
IUCN VIMarine Park
12.99 km² overlap
Great Barrier Reef Coast
IUCN IIMarine Park
6.74 km² overlap
Great Barrier Reef
IUCN IIMarine Park
6.57 km² overlap
Skull Knob
IUCN IIIConservation Park
2.95 km² overlap
1 more protected areassorted by overlap area
Bloomsbury
IUCN IIIConservation Park
0.03 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
674 distinct species · 3 709 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 34 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 Blackrock Creek : 29 espèces reliées par 26 interactions GloBI sur 3 types (connectance 4.6%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 5 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°
23,0°C
Annual rain
1 574mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,03
Runoff
573mm/an
PET
1 519mm
AET
1 071mm
Mean slope
4,0°
Water table
223cm
Forest
93%
Crops
2%
Urban
0%
Protected
18%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)