HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #5080224850
Bassin de Nourlangie 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 1 administrative regions : West Arnhem
Sub-basin area
498,2km²
Upstream area
3 075,9km²
Discharge
66,74m³/s
Mean elev.
19m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Nourlangie Creek249 km²
- Bassin de Burdulba Creek240 km²
1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 496.3 km²100.0% of basin
3 intersecting protected areas
Kakadu National Park
IUCN Not ApplicableWorld Heritage Site (natural or mixed)
496.33 km² overlap
Kakadu
IUCN IINational Park (Commonwealth)
496.33 km² overlap
Kakadu National Park
IUCN Not ReportedWetland of International Importance (Ramsar Site)
496.33 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
1 548 distinct species · 38 648 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 37 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 Nourlangie Creek : 31 espèces reliées par 37 interactions GloBI sur 3 types (connectance 5.6%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 6 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°
27,9°C
Annual rain
1 446mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,24
Runoff
659mm/an
PET
1 895mm
AET
985mm
Mean slope
0,6°
Water table
49cm
Forest
67%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
100%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)