HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #5080072810
Bassin de Barwon 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 : Greater Geelong, Surf Coast
Sub-basin area
264,3km²
Upstream area
8 795,6km²
Discharge
62,79m³/s
Mean elev.
44m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
Outlet (drains to ocean / endorheic)
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Moorabool River East Branch1124 km²
- Bassin de Barwon River458 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 228.4 km²86.3% of basin
- 36.1 km²13.6% of basin
2 intersecting protected areas
Lake Connewarre W.R
IUCN VINatural Features Reserve
35.54 km² overlap
Port Phillip Bay (Western Shoreline) and Bellarine Peninsula
IUCN Not ReportedWetland of International Importance (Ramsar Site)
32.60 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
3 738 distinct species · 784 087 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 30 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 Barwon River : 22 espèces dont 2 patrimoniales (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 38 interactions GloBI sur 3 types (connectance 8.7%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 8 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°
14,2°C
Annual rain
595mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,42
Runoff
194mm/an
PET
1 019mm
AET
510mm
Mean slope
1,5°
Water table
113cm
Forest
9%
Crops
4%
Urban
22%
Protected
13%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)