HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #5080070700
Bassin de Micalo Channel
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 : Clarence Valley
Sub-basin area
168,2km²
Upstream area
22 150,7km²
Discharge
138,42m³/s
Mean elev.
13m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
Outlet (drains to ocean / endorheic)
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Esk River396 km²
- Bassin de James Creek96 km²
1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 167.9 km²99.9% of basin
5 intersecting protected areas
Yuraygir
IUCN IINational Park
28.66 km² overlap
Clarence Estuary
IUCN IaNature Reserve
1.32 km² overlap
Gondwana Rainforests of Australia
IUCN Not ApplicableWorld Heritage Site (natural or mixed)
0.30 km² overlap
Iluka
IUCN IVNature Reserve
0.30 km² overlap
Bundjalung
IUCN IbNational Park
0.14 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
2 808 distinct species · 48 031 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 38 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 Micalo Channel : 33 espèces dont 1 patrimoniale (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 35 interactions GloBI sur 2 types (connectance 5.0%, 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°
19,2°C
Annual rain
1 449mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,15
Runoff
351mm/an
PET
1 223mm
AET
1 040mm
Mean slope
1,3°
Water table
62cm
Forest
64%
Crops
0%
Urban
3%
Protected
15%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)