HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #5080087740
Bassin de Salt 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 : Carnamah, Three Springs
Sub-basin area
514,5km²
Upstream area
36 624,6km²
Discharge
9,8m³/s
Mean elev.
264m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
Outlet (drains to ocean / endorheic)
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Darlings Creek932 km²
- Bassin de Salt River82 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 258.6 km²50.3% of basin
- 255.3 km²49.7% of basin
4 intersecting protected areas
Yarra Yarra Lake
IUCN IIConservation Park
107.61 km² overlap
Yarra Yarra Lakes
IUCN IaNature Reserve
13.92 km² overlap
Kadathinni
IUCN IaNature Reserve
0.27 km² overlap
Sweetman
IUCN IaNature Reserve
0.01 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
744 distinct species · 2 511 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 Salt River : 22 espèces dont 1 patrimoniale (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 38 interactions GloBI sur 3 types (connectance 7.7%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 10 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°
19,5°C
Annual rain
405mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,75
Runoff
39mm/an
PET
1 620mm
AET
342mm
Mean slope
0,8°
Water table
270cm
Forest
0%
Crops
58%
Urban
0%
Protected
24%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)