HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #5080233030
Bassin de Carson 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 : Wyndham-East Kimberley
Sub-basin area
4 442,9km²
Upstream area
4 443,5km²
Discharge
47,31m³/s
Mean elev.
270m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 4427.0 km²100.0% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Drysdale River
IUCN IINational Park
538.80 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
1 429 distinct species · 6 085 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 27 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 Carson River : 20 espèces reliées par 23 interactions GloBI sur 2 types (connectance 6.1%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 8 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°
26,7°C
Annual rain
1 234mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,31
Runoff
306mm/an
PET
1 781mm
AET
941mm
Mean slope
2,3°
Water table
225cm
Forest
3%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
13%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)