HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #5080262630
Bassin de Chestnut 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 : Derby-West Kimberley
Sub-basin area
1 230,9km²
Upstream area
1 230,9km²
Discharge
5,88m³/s
Mean elev.
146m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 1226.9 km²100.0% of basin
4 intersecting protected areas
Balili (Devonian Reef)
IUCN IIConservation Park
207.34 km² overlap
Bunuba
IUCN IINational Park
57.12 km² overlap
Bandilngan (Windjana Gorge)
IUCN IINational Park
3.78 km² overlap
Dimalurru
IUCN IINational Park
0.91 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
1 023 distinct species · 7 533 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 24 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 Chestnut Creek : 21 espèces reliées par 22 interactions GloBI sur 2 types (connectance 5.8%, 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°
27,3°C
Annual rain
654mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,67
Runoff
138mm/an
PET
1 993mm
AET
551mm
Mean slope
1,0°
Water table
145cm
Forest
22%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
16%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)