HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #5080069620
Bassin de Eight Mile 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 3 administrative regions : Banana, Gladstone, Rockhampton
Sub-basin area
485,1km²
Upstream area
485,5km²
Discharge
1,15m³/s
Mean elev.
78m
Administrative coverage
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 472.5 km²97.6% of basin
- 9.6 km²2.0% of basin
- 2.0 km²0.4% of basin
2 intersecting protected areas
Bouldercombe Gorge
IUCN VIResources Reserve
33.05 km² overlap
Pindari
IUCN VINature Refuge
0.42 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
886 distinct species · 26 071 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 31 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 Eight Mile Creek : 25 espèces reliées par 33 interactions GloBI sur 3 types (connectance 7.1%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 6 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°
22,0°C
Annual rain
813mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,48
Runoff
74mm/an
PET
1 555mm
AET
689mm
Mean slope
2,9°
Water table
207cm
Forest
7%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
7%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)