HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #5080235670
Bassin de Roper 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 : Roper Gulf
Sub-basin area
34km²
Upstream area
56 139,1km²
Discharge
191,12m³/s
Mean elev.
19m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Wilton River612 km²
- Bassin de Roper River506 km²
1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 33.9 km²100.0% of basin
2 intersecting protected areas
South-East Arnhem Land
IUCN VIIndigenous Protected Area
19.01 km² overlap
Limmen
IUCN VNational Park
3.97 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
144 distinct species · 700 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 23 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 Roper River : 19 espèces reliées par 19 interactions GloBI sur 3 types (connectance 7.5%, 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°
27,7°C
Annual rain
820mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,60
Runoff
169mm/an
PET
2 027mm
AET
692mm
Mean slope
0,9°
Water table
53cm
Forest
0%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
12%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)