HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #5080352480
Bassin de Fortescue 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 : Ashburton, East Pilbara
Sub-basin area
388,5km²
Upstream area
29 755,3km²
Discharge
0m³/s
Mean elev.
446m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Fortescue River253 km²
- Bassin de Fortescue River84 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 326.4 km²84.2% of basin
- 61.1 km²15.8% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Fortescue Marsh
IUCN IaNature Reserve
0.08 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
230 distinct species · 903 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 27 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 Fortescue River : 20 espèces dont 1 patrimoniale (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 29 interactions GloBI sur 2 types (connectance 8.3%, 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°
25,7°C
Annual rain
321mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,84
Runoff
34mm/an
PET
1 961mm
AET
269mm
Mean slope
1,1°
Water table
249cm
Forest
0%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)