HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #5080073720
Bassin de River Torrens
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 15 administrative regions : Adelaide, Adelaide Hills, Barossa, Burnside, Campbelltown +10
Sub-basin area
536,7km²
Upstream area
536,7km²
Discharge
2,17m³/s
Mean elev.
336m
Administrative coverage
15 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 351.0 km²65.4% of basin
- 43.1 km²8.0% of basin
- 24.5 km²4.6% of basin
- Campbelltown24.4 km²4.5% of basin
- 18.2 km²3.4% of basin
- 17.3 km²3.2% of basin
- 15.1 km²2.8% of basin
- 15.0 km²2.8% of basin
7 moreFull L2 list
- Adelaide12.5 km² · 2.3%
- Port Adelaide Enfield9.4 km² · 1.8%
- Walkerville3.5 km² · 0.7%
- Prospect2.2 km² · 0.4%
- Mid Murray0.2 km² · 0.0%
- Mitcham0.0 km² · 0.0%
- Playford0.0 km² · 0.0%
30 intersecting protected areas
Cleland
IUCN IINational Park
9.93 km² overlap
Black Hill
IUCN IIIConservation Park
7.60 km² overlap
Morialta
IUCN IIIConservation Park
5.85 km² overlap
Mount Gawler
IUCN IVForest Reserve
4.42 km² overlap
Coralinga
IUCN IVForest Reserve
3.78 km² overlap
Cudlee Creek
IUCN IVForest Reserve
3.51 km² overlap
Montacute
IUCN IIIConservation Park
1.94 km² overlap
Horsnell Gully
IUCN IIIConservation Park
1.38 km² overlap
Giles
IUCN IIIConservation Park
1.09 km² overlap
21 more protected areassorted by overlap area
Porter Scrub
IUCN IIIConservation Park
0.85 km² overlap
Anstey Hill
IUCN IIIRecreation Park
0.74 km² overlap
Cudlee Creek
IUCN IIIConservation Park
0.49 km² overlap
Unnamed (No.HA128)
IUCN IIIHeritage Agreement
0.37 km² overlap
Unnamed (No.HA31)
IUCN IIIHeritage Agreement
0.28 km² overlap
Unnamed (No.HA23)
IUCN IIIHeritage Agreement
0.27 km² overlap
Kenneth Stirling
IUCN IIIConservation Park
0.27 km² overlap
Unnamed (No.HA1014)
IUCN IIIHeritage Agreement
0.25 km² overlap
Cromer
IUCN IIIConservation Park
0.25 km² overlap
Unnamed (No.HA1661)
IUCN IIIHeritage Agreement
0.24 km² overlap
Greenhill
IUCN IIIRecreation Park
0.24 km² overlap
Unnamed (No.HA1668)
IUCN IIIHeritage Agreement
0.20 km² overlap
Unnamed (No.HA1660)
IUCN IIIHeritage Agreement
0.17 km² overlap
Unnamed (No.HA1074)
IUCN IIIHeritage Agreement
0.13 km² overlap
Unnamed (No.HA1317)
IUCN IIIHeritage Agreement
0.12 km² overlap
Unnamed (No.HA237)
IUCN IIIHeritage Agreement
0.11 km² overlap
Wiljani
IUCN IIIConservation Park
0.11 km² overlap
Unnamed (No.HA1593)
IUCN IIIHeritage Agreement
0.10 km² overlap
Unnamed (No.HA512)
IUCN IIIHeritage Agreement
0.10 km² overlap
Ferguson
IUCN IIIConservation Park
0.08 km² overlap
Unnamed (No.HA980)
IUCN IIIHeritage Agreement
0.07 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
6 307 distinct species · 412 069 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 36 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 River Torrens : 26 espèces dont 2 patrimoniales (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 79 interactions GloBI sur 5 types (connectance 11.9%, 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°
14,5°C
Annual rain
746mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,38
Runoff
76mm/an
PET
1 215mm
AET
610mm
Mean slope
5,7°
Water table
951cm
Forest
40%
Crops
14%
Urban
25%
Protected
8%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)