HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #5080231840
Bassin de Kendall 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 3 administrative regions : Aurukun, Cook, Pormpuraaw
Sub-basin area
1 158,9km²
Upstream area
5 130,1km²
Discharge
87,18m³/s
Mean elev.
55m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin · #50802326601617 km²
- Bassin de Kindle River441 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 728.6 km²63.1% of basin
- 213.3 km²18.5% of basin
- 212.7 km²18.4% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Holroyd
IUCN VINature Refuge
201.60 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
109 distinct species · 260 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 Kendall River : 33 espèces reliées par 39 interactions GloBI sur 3 types (connectance 5.9%, 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°
26,5°C
Annual rain
1 319mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,26
Runoff
684mm/an
PET
1 792mm
AET
881mm
Mean slope
0,5°
Water table
30cm
Forest
86%
Crops
2%
Urban
0%
Protected
17%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)