HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #5080235700
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
328km²
Upstream area
70 852,1km²
Discharge
262,22m³/s
Mean elev.
33m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Roper River634 km²
- Bassin de Roper River14 km²
1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 326.8 km²100.0% of basin
2 intersecting protected areas
Limmen
IUCN VNational Park
169.49 km² overlap
South-East Arnhem Land
IUCN VIIndigenous Protected Area
142.70 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
514 distinct species · 3 358 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 31 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 : 25 espèces reliées par 30 interactions GloBI sur 3 types (connectance 6.5%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 6 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°
27,5°C
Annual rain
859mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,56
Runoff
213mm/an
PET
1 975mm
AET
725mm
Mean slope
1,7°
Water table
177cm
Forest
0%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
52%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)