HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #5080414430
Bassin · #5080414430
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 : Meekatharra, Upper Gascoyne
Sub-basin area
654,4km²
Upstream area
654,6km²
Discharge
0,33m³/s
Mean elev.
493m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 640.5 km²98.1% of basin
- 12.5 km²1.9% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Jilgu
IUCN IINational Park
380.66 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
13 distinct species · 18 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°
23,5°C
Annual rain
222mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,88
Runoff
16mm/an
PET
1 892mm
AET
185mm
Mean slope
1,8°
Water table
480cm
Forest
0%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)