HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #5080237040
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
163,4km²
Upstream area
5 950,6km²
Discharge
22,48m³/s
Mean elev.
136m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Roper Creek2109 km²
- Bassin de Waterhouse River494 km²
1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 162.8 km²100.0% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Elsey
IUCN VNational Park
110.02 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
1 037 distinct species · 12 551 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 38 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 : 33 espèces reliées par 34 interactions GloBI sur 3 types (connectance 4.8%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 5 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°
27,2°C
Annual rain
813mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,60
Runoff
98mm/an
PET
2 042mm
AET
686mm
Mean slope
0,5°
Water table
87cm
Forest
32%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
68%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)