HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #5080072760
Bassin de Little 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 5 administrative regions : Golden Plains, Greater Geelong, Melton, Moorabool, Wyndham
Sub-basin area
620,9km²
Upstream area
621,1km²
Discharge
4,18m³/s
Mean elev.
140m
Administrative coverage
5 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 233.3 km²37.5% of basin
- 197.7 km²31.8% of basin
- 183.1 km²29.5% of basin
- 7.2 km²1.2% of basin
- 0.0 km²0.0% of basin
11 intersecting protected areas
Brisbane Ranges
IUCN IINational Park
52.72 km² overlap
Port Phillip Bay (Western Shoreline) and Bellarine Peninsula
IUCN Not ReportedWetland of International Importance (Ramsar Site)
50.08 km² overlap
Nature Conservation Reserve
10.31 km² overlap
Western Grasslands N.C.R.
IUCN IVNature Conservation Reserve
9.31 km² overlap
Stony Creek (Durdiwarrah)
IUCN IaReference Area
2.85 km² overlap
Durdidwarrah Creek
IUCN IaReference Area
0.71 km² overlap
Mount Anakie S.R.
IUCN IIINatural Features Reserve
0.12 km² overlap
The Spit W.R.
IUCN IaNature Conservation Reserve
0.10 km² overlap
Nature Conservation Reserve
0.08 km² overlap
2 more protected areassorted by overlap area
Little River, Ripley SS.R.
IUCN IIINatural Features Reserve
0.03 km² overlap
Wurdi Youyang B.R.
IUCN IVNatural Features Reserve
0.02 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
2 929 distinct species · 312 246 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 25 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 Little River : 21 espèces dont 2 patrimoniales (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 29 interactions GloBI sur 3 types (connectance 8.9%, 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°
13,9°C
Annual rain
550mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,49
Runoff
200mm/an
PET
1 077mm
AET
471mm
Mean slope
1,5°
Water table
140cm
Forest
12%
Crops
8%
Urban
2%
Protected
9%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)