HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #5080315010
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 : Burdekin, Charters Towers, Whitsunday
Sub-basin area
1 784,2km²
Upstream area
40 333,2km²
Discharge
164,49m³/s
Mean elev.
257m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Kirk River796 km²
- Bassin de Burdekin River673 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 1773.1 km²99.7% of basin
- 5.7 km²0.3% of basin
- 0.3 km²0.0% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
White Blow
IUCN IIIConservation Park
0.02 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
834 distinct species · 4 665 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 33 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 : 26 espèces reliées par 34 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 6.4%, 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°
23,0°C
Annual rain
695mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,59
Runoff
88mm/an
PET
1 693mm
AET
587mm
Mean slope
2,7°
Water table
337cm
Forest
7%
Crops
1%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)