HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #5080386460
Bassin de Finke 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 1 administrative regions : MacDonnell
Sub-basin area
1 800,1km²
Upstream area
1 800,1km²
Discharge
3,96m³/s
Mean elev.
787m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 1795.9 km²100.0% of basin
2 intersecting protected areas
National Park
1066.73 km² overlap
Central Western Desert
IUCN VIIndigenous Protected Area
10.64 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
1 567 distinct species · 51 998 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 Finke River : 21 espèces reliées par 35 interactions GloBI sur 2 types (connectance 7.1%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 11 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°
20,4°C
Annual rain
318mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,82
Runoff
69mm/an
PET
1 797mm
AET
268mm
Mean slope
5,0°
Water table
682cm
Forest
4%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
59%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)