HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #5080352830
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
84,3km²
Upstream area
29 114,2km²
Discharge
2,5m³/s
Mean elev.
433m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Fortescue River413 km²
- Bassin de Fortescue River182 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 83.2 km²98.9% of basin
- 0.9 km²1.1% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Fortescue Marsh
IUCN IaNature Reserve
3.07 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
61 distinct species · 211 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 14 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 : 14 espèces reliées par 8 interactions GloBI sur 2 types (connectance 8.8%, filtre Serrano α=0.2).
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
317mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,84
Runoff
33mm/an
PET
1 971mm
AET
265mm
Mean slope
0,7°
Water table
189cm
Forest
0%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)