HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #5080237730
Bassin de Elsey Creek
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
854,4km²
Upstream area
16 831,9km²
Discharge
22,29m³/s
Mean elev.
164m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Birdum Creek704 km²
- Bassin de Birdum Creek43 km²
1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 851.4 km²100.0% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
743 distinct species · 10 052 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 30 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 Elsey Creek : 23 espèces reliées par 33 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 7.6%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 7 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°
27,0°C
Annual rain
811mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,60
Runoff
74mm/an
PET
2 040mm
AET
684mm
Mean slope
0,3°
Water table
87cm
Forest
18%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)