HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #5080423020
Bassin de Powell 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, Quilpie
Sub-basin area
684,3km²
Upstream area
2 233,2km²
Discharge
2,86m³/s
Mean elev.
262m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Spencer Creek390 km²
- Bassin de Powell Creek103 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 354.6 km²51.9% of basin
- 328.3 km²48.1% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Hell Hole Gorge
IUCN IINational Park
85.18 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
239 distinct species · 482 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 42 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 Powell Creek : 33 espèces reliées par 37 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 4.1%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 10 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°
22,1°C
Annual rain
381mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,79
Runoff
40mm/an
PET
1 795mm
AET
321mm
Mean slope
1,1°
Water table
202cm
Forest
1%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
13%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)