HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #5080245810
Bassin de McArthur 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
2 259,3km²
Upstream area
15 024,5km²
Discharge
84,43m³/s
Mean elev.
51m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de McArthur River2438 km²
- Bassin de McArthur River1148 km²
1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 2251.6 km²100.0% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Indigenous Protected Area
410.38 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
2 120 distinct species · 28 580 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 28 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 McArthur River : 22 espèces reliées par 27 interactions GloBI sur 2 types (connectance 6.7%, 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
812mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,56
Runoff
249mm/an
PET
1 866mm
AET
685mm
Mean slope
1,0°
Water table
126cm
Forest
2%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
19%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)