HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #5080416850
Bassin de Yellow Mountain 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 1 administrative regions : Barcoo
Sub-basin area
327,3km²
Upstream area
50 873km²
Discharge
14,26m³/s
Mean elev.
173m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Powell Creek959 km²
- Bassin de Boree Creek399 km²
1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 326.6 km²100.0% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Welford
IUCN IINational Park
0.64 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
68 distinct species · 122 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 23 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 Yellow Mountain Creek : 22 espèces reliées par 20 interactions GloBI sur 2 types (connectance 7.9%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 1 bulle taxonomique (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°
22,8°C
Annual rain
333mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,82
Runoff
25mm/an
PET
1 830mm
AET
279mm
Mean slope
0,2°
Water table
51cm
Forest
0%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)