HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #5080236990
Bassin de Morehead 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 : Cook
Sub-basin area
578,2km²
Upstream area
1 707km²
Discharge
20,92m³/s
Mean elev.
93m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Morehead River298 km²
- Bassin de Morehead River2 km²
1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 576.1 km²100.0% of basin
5 intersecting protected areas
Olkola
IUCN IIIndigenous Protected Area
208.62 km² overlap
Alwal
IUCN IINational Park Aboriginal
176.06 km² overlap
Payrrape
IUCN VINature Refuge
84.01 km² overlap
Artemis Antbed Parrot
IUCN VINature Refuge
75.68 km² overlap
Rinyirru (Lakefield)
IUCN IINational Park Aboriginal
54.25 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
614 distinct species · 4 120 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 Morehead River : 27 espèces reliées par 52 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 7.8%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 10 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°
26,0°C
Annual rain
1 093mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,41
Runoff
378mm/an
PET
1 842mm
AET
890mm
Mean slope
1,2°
Water table
72cm
Forest
64%
Crops
2%
Urban
0%
Protected
40%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)