HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #5080414650
Bassin de Gascoyne 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 2 administrative regions : Carnarvon, Upper Gascoyne
Sub-basin area
225,4km²
Upstream area
69 714,1km²
Discharge
52,71m³/s
Mean elev.
168m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Lyons River1155 km²
- Bassin de Gascoyne River587 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 188.4 km²83.8% of basin
- 36.5 km²16.2% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Kennedy Range
IUCN IINational Park
66.75 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
41 distinct species · 53 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°
23,8°C
Annual rain
200mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,90
Runoff
30mm/an
PET
1 916mm
AET
166mm
Mean slope
1,4°
Water table
311cm
Forest
0%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
16%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)