HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #5080250690
Bassin de Charnley 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 2 administrative regions : Derby-West Kimberley, Wyndham-East Kimberley
Sub-basin area
1 593km²
Upstream area
3 276,5km²
Discharge
24,69m³/s
Mean elev.
398m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Maudie Creek512 km²
- Bassin de Charnley River37 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 1546.1 km²97.4% of basin
- 41.5 km²2.6% of basin
3 intersecting protected areas
Wilinggin
IUCN VIndigenous Protected Area
857.54 km² overlap
Charnley River
IUCN IIPrivate Nature Reserve
629.88 km² overlap
Prince Regent
IUCN IINational Park
13.67 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
495 distinct species · 1 482 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 27 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 Charnley River : 24 espèces reliées par 16 interactions GloBI sur 2 types (connectance 4.6%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 3 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°
26,3°C
Annual rain
1 069mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,40
Runoff
240mm/an
PET
1 782mm
AET
872mm
Mean slope
2,5°
Water table
332cm
Forest
14%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
1%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)