HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #5080405280
Bassin de Barcoo 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 : Longreach
Sub-basin area
1 042km²
Upstream area
40 376,2km²
Discharge
8,49m³/s
Mean elev.
210m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Wild Horse Creek2135 km²
- Bassin de Barcoo River11 km²
1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 1039.8 km²100.0% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
150 distinct species · 222 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 40 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 Barcoo River : 35 espèces reliées par 36 interactions GloBI sur 3 types (connectance 4.6%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 5 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°
22,9°C
Annual rain
410mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,78
Runoff
23mm/an
PET
1 854mm
AET
344mm
Mean slope
0,1°
Water table
108cm
Forest
1%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)