HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #5080070540
Bassin de Nerang 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 : Gold Coast, Scenic Rim, Tweed
Sub-basin area
486,8km²
Upstream area
486,8km²
Discharge
9,7m³/s
Mean elev.
195m
Administrative coverage
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 474.5 km²97.6% of basin
- 10.4 km²2.1% of basin
- 0.0 km²0.0% of basin
21 intersecting protected areas
Springbrook
IUCN IINational Park
55.98 km² overlap
Gondwana Rainforests of Australia
IUCN Not ApplicableWorld Heritage Site (natural or mixed)
36.86 km² overlap
Lamington
IUCN IINational Park
26.71 km² overlap
Nerang
IUCN IINational Park
5.80 km² overlap
Hinze Dam Numinbah
IUCN VINature Refuge
2.64 km² overlap
Nature Refuge
2.55 km² overlap
An.Ki.Da
IUCN VINature Refuge
2.02 km² overlap
Numinbah Conservation Area
IUCN VINature Refuge
0.74 km² overlap
Nerang
IUCN IIIConservation Park
0.66 km² overlap
12 more protected areassorted by overlap area
Wyangan Springs
IUCN VINature Refuge
0.63 km² overlap
Rosins Lookout
IUCN IIIConservation Park
0.62 km² overlap
Natural Bridge
IUCN VINature Refuge
0.60 km² overlap
Upper Austinville
IUCN VINature Refuge
0.57 km² overlap
Bimboola
IUCN VINature Refuge
0.39 km² overlap
Springbrook
IUCN IIIConservation Park
0.37 km² overlap
Big Fig
IUCN VINature Refuge
0.36 km² overlap
Birthday Trail
IUCN VINature Refuge
0.32 km² overlap
Blue Fig Creek
IUCN VINature Refuge
0.25 km² overlap
David Fleay
IUCN IIIConservation Park
0.04 km² overlap
Tallebudgera Creek
IUCN IIIConservation Park
0.01 km² overlap
Limpinwood
IUCN IbNature Reserve
0.00 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
5 159 distinct species · 200 198 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 30 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 Nerang River : 25 espèces dont 1 patrimoniale (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 23 interactions GloBI sur 3 types (connectance 5.3%, 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°
18,9°C
Annual rain
1 649mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,19
Runoff
512mm/an
PET
1 331mm
AET
1 169mm
Mean slope
9,2°
Water table
385cm
Forest
72%
Crops
0%
Urban
31%
Protected
18%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)