HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #5080352840
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
181,7km²
Upstream area
28 617,1km²
Discharge
3,56m³/s
Mean elev.
433m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Fortescue River1536 km²
- Bassin de Fortescue River83 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 153.6 km²84.8% of basin
- 27.6 km²15.2% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Fortescue Marsh
IUCN IaNature Reserve
16.02 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
110 distinct species · 450 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 21 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 : 17 espèces reliées par 16 interactions GloBI sur 2 types (connectance 7.6%, 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°
25,7°C
Annual rain
314mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,84
Runoff
32mm/an
PET
1 973mm
AET
263mm
Mean slope
0,5°
Water table
217cm
Forest
0%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)