HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #5080412740
Bassin de Giles 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 2 administrative regions : MacDonnell, Ngaanyatjarraku
Sub-basin area
704,1km²
Upstream area
1 356,8km²
Discharge
0,33m³/s
Mean elev.
654m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Giles Creek350 km²
- Bassin · #5080417490302 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 690.8 km²98.3% of basin
- 11.9 km²1.7% of basin
2 intersecting protected areas
Ngaanyatjarra
IUCN VIIndigenous Protected Area
690.67 km² overlap
Katiti Petermann
IUCN VIIndigenous Protected Area
11.96 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
214 distinct species · 490 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 33 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 Giles Creek : 20 espèces dont 1 patrimoniale (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 53 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 7.5%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 18 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°
21,6°C
Annual rain
272mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,85
Runoff
8mm/an
PET
1 772mm
AET
228mm
Mean slope
0,6°
Water table
369cm
Forest
0%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
98%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)