HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #5080072790
Bassin de Cowies 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 : Greater Geelong, Queenscliffe
Sub-basin area
364,8km²
Upstream area
364,8km²
Discharge
2,05m³/s
Mean elev.
35m
Administrative coverage
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 325.3 km²89.1% of basin
- 8.6 km²2.4% of basin
10 intersecting protected areas
Port Phillip Bay (Western Shoreline) and Bellarine Peninsula
IUCN Not ReportedWetland of International Importance (Ramsar Site)
7.47 km² overlap
Port Phillip Heads
IUCN IIMarine National Park
6.39 km² overlap
Swan Bay - Edwards Point W.R
IUCN IaNature Conservation Reserve
2.78 km² overlap
Lonsdale Lakes W.R
IUCN IaNature Conservation Reserve
1.95 km² overlap
Salt Lagoon, St Leonards W.R
IUCN IaNature Conservation Reserve
0.87 km² overlap
Nature Conservation Reserve
0.67 km² overlap
Drakes B.R.
IUCN IVNatural Features Reserve
0.04 km² overlap
Queenscliff N.F.R
IUCN IVNatural Features Reserve
0.04 km² overlap
Bellarine I110 B.R.
IUCN IVNatural Features Reserve
0.02 km² overlap
1 more protected areassorted by overlap area
Bellarine I109 B.R.
IUCN IVNatural Features Reserve
0.00 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
3 687 distinct species · 473 278 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 29 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 Cowies Creek : 24 espèces dont 1 patrimoniale (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 22 interactions GloBI sur 3 types (connectance 5.4%, 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°
14,3°C
Annual rain
608mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,39
Runoff
173mm/an
PET
1 007mm
AET
521mm
Mean slope
1,2°
Water table
111cm
Forest
8%
Crops
3%
Urban
21%
Protected
3%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)