HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #5080351780
Bassin de Western 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 1 administrative regions : Winton
Sub-basin area
1 982,7km²
Upstream area
9 342,5km²
Discharge
11,75m³/s
Mean elev.
207m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Mistake Creek678 km²
- Bassin de Western River116 km²
1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 1977.7 km²100.0% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Bladensburg
IUCN IINational Park
355.26 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
629 distinct species · 22 031 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 Western River : 27 espèces reliées par 30 interactions GloBI sur 2 types (connectance 6.5%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 4 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°
23,9°C
Annual rain
402mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,79
Runoff
39mm/an
PET
1 928mm
AET
337mm
Mean slope
0,4°
Water table
118cm
Forest
0%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
18%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)