HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #5080400280
Bassin · #5080400280
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 : MacDonnell, Ngaanyatjarraku
Sub-basin area
497,8km²
Upstream area
497,8km²
Discharge
0m³/s
Mean elev.
521m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 380.5 km²76.6% of basin
- 116.3 km²23.4% of basin
2 intersecting protected areas
Katiti Petermann
IUCN VIIndigenous Protected Area
380.74 km² overlap
Ngaanyatjarra
IUCN VIIndigenous Protected Area
116.03 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
30 distinct species · 44 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Not enough documented interactions to build a meaningful graph for this territory.
Hydroclimate (BasinATLAS lev08)
Mean T°
22,6°C
Annual rain
264mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,86
Runoff
9mm/an
PET
1 830mm
AET
221mm
Mean slope
1,2°
Water table
165cm
Forest
0%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
24%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)