HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #5080432550
Bassin de Dawson 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 : Banana, Maranoa
Sub-basin area
1 281,1km²
Upstream area
6 600,4km²
Discharge
3,94m³/s
Mean elev.
331m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Baffle Creek2318 km²
- Bassin de Hutton Creek767 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 1274.7 km²99.7% of basin
- 3.9 km²0.3% of basin
2 intersecting protected areas
Expedition (Limited Depth)
IUCN IINational Park
17.78 km² overlap
Expedition
IUCN VIResources Reserve
14.39 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
562 distinct species · 1 799 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 45 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 Dawson River : 36 espèces reliées par 51 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 5.2%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 9 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°
19,9°C
Annual rain
626mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,63
Runoff
20mm/an
PET
1 695mm
AET
529mm
Mean slope
3,8°
Water table
475cm
Forest
52%
Crops
35%
Urban
0%
Protected
3%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)