HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #5080238720
Bassin de Ernest 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 : Wyndham-East Kimberley
Sub-basin area
71,2km²
Upstream area
1 076,6km²
Discharge
3,21m³/s
Mean elev.
124m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Ernest River504 km²
- Bassin de Forrest River501 km²
1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 71.0 km²100.0% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Balanggarra
IUCN VIIndigenous Protected Area
70.98 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
0 distinct species · 0 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°
28,3°C
Annual rain
900mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,53
Runoff
157mm/an
PET
1 917mm
AET
760mm
Mean slope
2,0°
Water table
183cm
Forest
16%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)