HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #5080072140
Bassin de Mitchell 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 2 administrative regions : East Gippsland, Wellington
Sub-basin area
1 203,6km²
Upstream area
4 651,8km²
Discharge
42,28m³/s
Mean elev.
226m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
Outlet (drains to ocean / endorheic)
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Wentworth River502 km²
- Bassin de Mitchell River125 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 1170.6 km²97.2% of basin
- 33.6 km²2.8% of basin
11 intersecting protected areas
Mitchell River
IUCN IINational Park
128.29 km² overlap
Heritage River
57.60 km² overlap
Gippsland Lakes
IUCN Not ReportedWetland of International Importance (Ramsar Site)
3.77 km² overlap
Macleod Morass W.R.
IUCN VINatural Features Reserve
3.20 km² overlap
Wy Yung I17 B.R.
IUCN IVNatural Features Reserve
2.08 km² overlap
Jones Bay W.R
IUCN VINatural Features Reserve
0.41 km² overlap
Wy Yung I19 B.R.
IUCN IVNatural Features Reserve
0.23 km² overlap
Moormurng F.F.R.
IUCN IaNature Conservation Reserve
0.21 km² overlap
Jones Bay G.L.R
IUCN VINatural Features Reserve
0.17 km² overlap
2 more protected areassorted by overlap area
Natural Features Reserve
0.15 km² overlap
Wy Yung I18 B.R.
IUCN IVNatural Features Reserve
0.09 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
2 592 distinct species · 124 244 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 27 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 Mitchell River : 21 espèces reliées par 37 interactions GloBI sur 5 types (connectance 10.5%, 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°
13,1°C
Annual rain
801mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,29
Runoff
194mm/an
PET
1 130mm
AET
680mm
Mean slope
6,8°
Water table
296cm
Forest
77%
Crops
1%
Urban
1%
Protected
12%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)