HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #5080418150
Bassin de Eight Mile 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 : Barcoo, Longreach
Sub-basin area
904,6km²
Upstream area
904,6km²
Discharge
0,73m³/s
Mean elev.
190m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 895.0 km²99.1% of basin
- 7.7 km²0.9% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Welford
IUCN IINational Park
575.44 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
990 distinct species · 19 235 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 Eight Mile Creek : 19 espèces reliées par 26 interactions GloBI sur 2 types (connectance 9.4%, 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°
22,8°C
Annual rain
313mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,83
Runoff
25mm/an
PET
1 830mm
AET
262mm
Mean slope
0,3°
Water table
282cm
Forest
1%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
64%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)