HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #5080438880
Bassin · #5080438880
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
68,8km²
Upstream area
656,4km²
Discharge
0,18m³/s
Mean elev.
81m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin · #5080436940414 km²
- Bassin · #5080436950174 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 60.9 km²88.6% of basin
- 7.8 km²11.4% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Munga-Thirri—Simpson Desert
IUCN VINational Park
60.87 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
5 distinct species · 7 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°
22,6°C
Annual rain
139mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,93
Runoff
6mm/an
PET
1 867mm
AET
114mm
Mean slope
1,0°
Water table
53cm
Forest
0%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
88%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)