HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #5080302900
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 2 administrative regions : Cloncurry, Mount Isa
Sub-basin area
1 096,7km²
Upstream area
6 781,2km²
Discharge
11,12m³/s
Mean elev.
224m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin · #5080304250738 km²
- Bassin de Leichhardt River164 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 803.3 km²73.5% of basin
- 290.3 km²26.5% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
434 distinct species · 1 992 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 Leichhardt River : 24 espèces reliées par 33 interactions GloBI sur 3 types (connectance 7.6%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 6 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°
25,3°C
Annual rain
494mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,74
Runoff
63mm/an
PET
1 931mm
AET
415mm
Mean slope
2,7°
Water table
275cm
Forest
0%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)