HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #5080432220
Bassin · #5080432220
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 3 administrative regions : Central Desert, Diamantina, MacDonnell
Sub-basin area
1 678,5km²
Upstream area
1 678,5km²
Discharge
0,29m³/s
Mean elev.
100m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 770.1 km²46.0% of basin
- 512.0 km²30.6% of basin
- 392.7 km²23.4% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Munga-Thirri
IUCN IINational Park
769.80 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
65 distinct species · 91 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°
23,2°C
Annual rain
190mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,90
Runoff
6mm/an
PET
1 910mm
AET
158mm
Mean slope
0,6°
Water table
31cm
Forest
0%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
46%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)