HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #5080231880
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 2 administrative regions : Aurukun, Cook
Sub-basin area
559km²
Upstream area
1 950,1km²
Discharge
40,4m³/s
Mean elev.
53m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin · #5080231810486 km²
- Bassin de Kendall River10 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 530.3 km²95.2% of basin
- 26.7 km²4.8% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Holroyd
IUCN VINature Refuge
77.32 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
1 distinct species · 4 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Not enough documented interactions to build a meaningful graph for this territory.
Hydroclimate (BasinATLAS lev08)
Mean T°
26,5°C
Annual rain
1 334mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,25
Runoff
667mm/an
PET
1 784mm
AET
885mm
Mean slope
0,8°
Water table
38cm
Forest
76%
Crops
5%
Urban
0%
Protected
14%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)