HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #5080283620
Bassin de Leichhardt 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 4 administrative regions : Burke, Carpentaria, Cloncurry, Mount Isa
Sub-basin area
1 616,3km²
Upstream area
17 204,4km²
Discharge
33,49m³/s
Mean elev.
109m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Leichhardt River1933 km²
- Bassin de Leichhardt River2 km²
4 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 1237.9 km²76.8% of basin
- 167.9 km²10.4% of basin
- 118.2 km²7.3% of basin
- 87.4 km²5.4% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Chidna
IUCN VINature Refuge
72.23 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
545 distinct species · 2 115 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 36 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 Leichhardt River : 25 espèces reliées par 42 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 6.7%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 11 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°
26,0°C
Annual rain
544mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,72
Runoff
77mm/an
PET
1 921mm
AET
458mm
Mean slope
1,2°
Water table
133cm
Forest
2%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)