HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #5080224860
Bassin de South Aligator 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 1 administrative regions : West Arnhem
Sub-basin area
359,5km²
Upstream area
7 130,9km²
Discharge
119,17m³/s
Mean elev.
19m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Jim Jim Creek2244 km²
- Bassin de South Alligator River295 km²
1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 358.2 km²100.0% of basin
3 intersecting protected areas
Kakadu
IUCN IINational Park (Commonwealth)
357.19 km² overlap
Kakadu National Park
IUCN Not ApplicableWorld Heritage Site (natural or mixed)
357.06 km² overlap
Kakadu National Park
IUCN Not ReportedWetland of International Importance (Ramsar Site)
357.05 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
1 289 distinct species · 86 305 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 33 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 South Aligator River : 29 espèces dont 1 patrimoniale (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 27 interactions GloBI sur 3 types (connectance 5.1%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 4 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°
27,8°C
Annual rain
1 422mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,25
Runoff
631mm/an
PET
1 907mm
AET
990mm
Mean slope
0,6°
Water table
42cm
Forest
91%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
100%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)