HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #5080243340
Bassin de Western 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 2 administrative regions : Roper Gulf, Victoria-Daly
Sub-basin area
820,3km²
Upstream area
1 760,4km²
Discharge
3,88m³/s
Mean elev.
213m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin · #5080247730558 km²
- Bassin · #5080247720382 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 799.8 km²97.8% of basin
- 17.6 km²2.2% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
249 distinct species · 627 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 23 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 Western Creek : 18 espèces reliées par 25 interactions GloBI sur 2 types (connectance 9.9%, 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°
26,6°C
Annual rain
763mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,63
Runoff
70mm/an
PET
2 043mm
AET
644mm
Mean slope
0,1°
Water table
25cm
Forest
32%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)