HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #5080073790
Bassin de North Para 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 8 administrative regions : Adelaide Hills, Barossa, Gawler, Light, Mallala +3
Sub-basin area
1 867km²
Upstream area
1 867,2km²
Discharge
6,24m³/s
Mean elev.
208m
Administrative coverage
8 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 665.9 km²35.7% of basin
- 641.4 km²34.4% of basin
- 268.2 km²14.4% of basin
- 175.7 km²9.4% of basin
- 76.4 km²4.1% of basin
- 35.3 km²1.9% of basin
- 2.0 km²0.1% of basin
- 0.9 km²0.0% of basin
30 intersecting protected areas
Para Wirra
IUCN IIIConservation Park
17.64 km² overlap
Kersbrook
IUCN IVForest Reserve
8.37 km² overlap
National Park
7.23 km² overlap
Kaiserstuhl
IUCN IIIConservation Park
4.68 km² overlap
Warren
IUCN IIIConservation Park
3.65 km² overlap
Watts Gully
IUCN IVForest Reserve
3.44 km² overlap
Upper Gulf St Vincent
IUCN IVMarine Park
3.13 km² overlap
Hale
IUCN IIIConservation Park
1.89 km² overlap
Little Mt. Crawford
IUCN IVForest Reserve
1.76 km² overlap
21 more protected areassorted by overlap area
Sandy Creek
IUCN IIIConservation Park
1.59 km² overlap
Tower Hill
IUCN IVForest Reserve
1.30 km² overlap
Unnamed (No.HA48)
IUCN IIIHeritage Agreement
0.73 km² overlap
Unnamed (No.HA1345)
IUCN IIIHeritage Agreement
0.61 km² overlap
Unnamed (No.HA900)
IUCN IIIHeritage Agreement
0.56 km² overlap
Unnamed (No.HA1010)
IUCN IIIHeritage Agreement
0.36 km² overlap
Unnamed (No.HA1650)
IUCN IIIHeritage Agreement
0.32 km² overlap
Unnamed (No.HA1211)
IUCN IIIHeritage Agreement
0.26 km² overlap
Unnamed (No.HA1467)
IUCN IIIHeritage Agreement
0.26 km² overlap
Unnamed (No.HA1676)
IUCN IIIHeritage Agreement
0.22 km² overlap
Unnamed (No.HA1270)
IUCN IIIHeritage Agreement
0.20 km² overlap
Cromer
IUCN IIIConservation Park
0.19 km² overlap
Unnamed (No.HA168)
IUCN IIIHeritage Agreement
0.19 km² overlap
Unnamed (No.HA56)
IUCN IIIHeritage Agreement
0.19 km² overlap
Unnamed (No.HA1620)
IUCN IIIHeritage Agreement
0.19 km² overlap
Unnamed (No.HA1441)
IUCN IIIHeritage Agreement
0.19 km² overlap
Unnamed (No.HA1482)
IUCN IIIHeritage Agreement
0.14 km² overlap
Unnamed (No.HA1476)
IUCN IIIHeritage Agreement
0.09 km² overlap
Unnamed (No.HA1517)
IUCN IIIHeritage Agreement
0.08 km² overlap
Mount Gawler
IUCN IVForest Reserve
0.08 km² overlap
Unnamed (No.HA1648)
IUCN IIIHeritage Agreement
0.07 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
5 315 distinct species · 389 266 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 31 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 North Para River : 24 espèces dont 1 patrimoniale (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 52 interactions GloBI sur 5 types (connectance 9.8%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 9 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°
15,4°C
Annual rain
533mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,58
Runoff
58mm/an
PET
1 279mm
AET
454mm
Mean slope
2,2°
Water table
767cm
Forest
8%
Crops
41%
Urban
2%
Protected
3%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)