HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #5080294910
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 3 administrative regions : Charters Towers, Hinchinbrook, Townsville
Sub-basin area
2 073,9km²
Upstream area
20 986,4km²
Discharge
60,23m³/s
Mean elev.
512m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Douglas Creek1239 km²
- Bassin de Burdekin River515 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 2038.5 km²98.6% of basin
- 14.7 km²0.7% of basin
- 14.4 km²0.7% of basin
4 intersecting protected areas
Mount Zero-Taravale
IUCN IINature Refuge
262.60 km² overlap
Wet Tropics of Queensland
IUCN Not ApplicableWorld Heritage Site (natural or mixed)
42.90 km² overlap
Girringun
IUCN IIIIndigenous Protected Area
32.66 km² overlap
Paluma Range
IUCN IINational Park
32.64 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
3 062 distinct species · 43 381 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 28 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 : 25 espèces reliées par 29 interactions GloBI sur 3 types (connectance 7.7%, 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°
22,1°C
Annual rain
746mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,53
Runoff
205mm/an
PET
1 598mm
AET
631mm
Mean slope
4,6°
Water table
350cm
Forest
16%
Crops
1%
Urban
0%
Protected
14%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)