HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #5080365500
Bassin de Sandy Creek
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 : Barcaldine
Sub-basin area
221,4km²
Upstream area
2 902km²
Discharge
2,1m³/s
Mean elev.
304m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Well Creek322 km²
- Bassin de Rocky Creek257 km²
1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 220.8 km²100.0% of basin
2 intersecting protected areas
Cudmore
IUCN VIResources Reserve
20.69 km² overlap
Cudmore (Limited Depth)
IUCN IINational Park
0.09 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
54 distinct species · 63 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 11 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 Sandy Creek : 9 espèces reliées par 7 interactions GloBI sur 2 types (connectance 12.7%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 2 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°
22,3°C
Annual rain
587mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,67
Runoff
23mm/an
PET
1 797mm
AET
494mm
Mean slope
0,4°
Water table
135cm
Forest
0%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
9%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)