HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #5080274020
Bassin de Margaret 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, Halls Creek
Sub-basin area
2 579,5km²
Upstream area
22 639,9km²
Discharge
103,45m³/s
Mean elev.
177m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Margaret River1202 km²
- Bassin de Margaret River484 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 1852.9 km²72.1% of basin
- 718.4 km²27.9% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Warlibirri
IUCN IINational Park
24.50 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
427 distinct species · 1 417 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 38 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 Margaret River : 33 espèces dont 1 patrimoniale (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 33 interactions GloBI sur 3 types (connectance 4.7%, 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°
27,3°C
Annual rain
502mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,76
Runoff
114mm/an
PET
2 096mm
AET
422mm
Mean slope
0,7°
Water table
115cm
Forest
7%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)