HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #5080072180
Bassin de Lake Wellington
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
169,4km²
Upstream area
10 855,2km²
Discharge
101,94m³/s
Mean elev.
4m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
Outlet (drains to ocean / endorheic)
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Avon River2063 km²
- Bassin de Latrobe River401 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 169.4 km²99.9% of basin
- 0.1 km²0.1% of basin
8 intersecting protected areas
Gippsland Lakes
IUCN Not ReportedWetland of International Importance (Ramsar Site)
90.93 km² overlap
Gippsland Lakes Coastal Park
IUCN VIConservation Park
17.32 km² overlap
Lake Coleman W.R
IUCN VINatural Features Reserve
8.76 km² overlap
Natural Features Reserve
2.66 km² overlap
Morley Swamp G.L.R.
IUCN VINatural Features Reserve
2.30 km² overlap
Tucker Swamp G.L.R
IUCN VINatural Features Reserve
1.31 km² overlap
Natural Features Reserve
1.00 km² overlap
Victoria Lagoon G.L.R.
IUCN VINatural Features Reserve
0.14 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
616 distinct species · 13 942 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 33 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 Lake Wellington : 22 espèces reliées par 51 interactions GloBI sur 5 types (connectance 9.7%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 11 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°
14,0°C
Annual rain
645mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,42
Runoff
154mm/an
PET
1 110mm
AET
550mm
Mean slope
0,1°
Water table
12cm
Forest
22%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
20%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)