HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #5080442820
Bassin · #5080442820
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
324,7km²
Upstream area
4 139,8km²
Discharge
0,91m³/s
Mean elev.
90m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin · #5080436600920 km²
- Bassin · #5080436680111 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 278.5 km²85.9% of basin
- 45.6 km²14.1% of basin
2 intersecting protected areas
Munga-Thirri—Simpson Desert
IUCN VINational Park
245.26 km² overlap
Witjira
IUCN VINational Park
33.28 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
3 distinct species · 3 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°
22,5°C
Annual rain
134mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,93
Runoff
6mm/an
PET
1 864mm
AET
109mm
Mean slope
0,2°
Water table
28cm
Forest
0%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
86%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)