HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #5080285210
Bassin de Burdekin 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 : Charters Towers, Tablelands
Sub-basin area
1 860,8km²
Upstream area
4 164,8km²
Discharge
18,67m³/s
Mean elev.
622m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Burdekin River1646 km²
- Bassin de Anthill Creek658 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 986.5 km²53.2% of basin
- 868.5 km²46.8% of basin
4 intersecting protected areas
Kinrara
IUCN IINational Park
76.09 km² overlap
Girringun
IUCN IIIIndigenous Protected Area
76.09 km² overlap
Craig's Pocket
IUCN VINature Refuge
35.41 km² overlap
Glenlofty
IUCN VINature Refuge
21.44 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
945 distinct species · 12 114 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 30 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 Burdekin River : 24 espèces reliées par 42 interactions GloBI sur 3 types (connectance 9.0%, 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°
22,0°C
Annual rain
734mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,57
Runoff
102mm/an
PET
1 689mm
AET
621mm
Mean slope
1,3°
Water table
203cm
Forest
20%
Crops
1%
Urban
0%
Protected
7%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)