HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #5080438870
Bassin de Finke 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 : MacDonnell, Unincorporated South Australia
Sub-basin area
366,9km²
Upstream area
41 725,9km²
Discharge
66,23m³/s
Mean elev.
156m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Abminga Creek1301 km²
- Bassin de Finke River470 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 296.4 km²80.9% of basin
- 69.8 km²19.1% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Witjira
IUCN VINational Park
296.46 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
186 distinct species · 578 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 27 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 Finke River : 21 espèces dont 1 patrimoniale (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 34 interactions GloBI sur 3 types (connectance 8.4%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 8 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°
22,2°C
Annual rain
136mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,93
Runoff
30mm/an
PET
1 850mm
AET
112mm
Mean slope
0,7°
Water table
107cm
Forest
0%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
81%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)