HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #5080070910
Bassin de Killick 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 : Kempsey, Port Macquarie-Hastings
Sub-basin area
137,4km²
Upstream area
137,4km²
Discharge
1,02m³/s
Mean elev.
18m
Administrative coverage
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 102.8 km²74.8% of basin
- 11.8 km²8.6% of basin
5 intersecting protected areas
Hat Head
IUCN IINational Park
43.87 km² overlap
Limeburners Creek
IUCN IbNational Park
16.60 km² overlap
Goolawah
IUCN IINational Park
5.40 km² overlap
Arakoon
IUCN IINational Park
1.48 km² overlap
Goolawah
IUCN VRegional Park
0.65 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
2 834 distinct species · 74 794 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 28 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 Killick Creek : 22 espèces reliées par 20 interactions GloBI sur 3 types (connectance 5.3%, 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°
18,4°C
Annual rain
1 476mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,17
Runoff
437mm/an
PET
1 230mm
AET
1 053mm
Mean slope
2,7°
Water table
161cm
Forest
95%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
47%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)