HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #5080373160
Bassin de Kells 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 : Winton
Sub-basin area
1 549,7km²
Upstream area
34 443,8km²
Discharge
48,79m³/s
Mean elev.
161m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Cadell Creek297 km²
- Bassin de Diamantina River265 km²
1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 1545.9 km²100.0% of basin
2 intersecting protected areas
Lark Quarry
IUCN IIIConservation Park
13.93 km² overlap
Mount Windsor
IUCN VINature Refuge
11.67 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
527 distinct species · 7 546 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 29 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 Kells Creek : 24 espèces reliées par 32 interactions GloBI sur 2 types (connectance 7.4%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 6 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°
24,1°C
Annual rain
313mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,84
Runoff
52mm/an
PET
1 915mm
AET
262mm
Mean slope
0,3°
Water table
77cm
Forest
0%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
1%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)