HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #5080237000
Bassin de Normanby 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
58,8km²
Upstream area
10 204,8km²
Discharge
189,38m³/s
Mean elev.
41m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Jack River1608 km²
- Bassin de Normanby River463 km²
1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 58.6 km²100.0% of basin
2 intersecting protected areas
Kalpowar
IUCN VINature Refuge
4.09 km² overlap
Rinyirru (Lakefield)
IUCN IINational Park Aboriginal
3.04 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
9 distinct species · 18 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°
26,0°C
Annual rain
1 078mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,36
Runoff
472mm/an
PET
1 696mm
AET
866mm
Mean slope
0,4°
Water table
31cm
Forest
47%
Crops
2%
Urban
0%
Protected
12%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)