HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #5080445620
Bassin de Meston Creek
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 : Maranoa, Murweh
Sub-basin area
833,1km²
Upstream area
833,1km²
Discharge
0,32m³/s
Mean elev.
476m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 791.5 km²95.2% of basin
- 40.1 km²4.8% of basin
4 intersecting protected areas
Chesterton Range
IUCN IINational Park
115.03 km² overlap
Morven
IUCN IIIConservation Park
2.56 km² overlap
Orkadilla
IUCN VINature Refuge
1.14 km² overlap
Tregole
IUCN IINational Park
0.05 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
799 distinct species · 4 419 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 39 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 Meston Creek : 30 espèces dont 1 patrimoniale (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 37 interactions GloBI sur 3 types (connectance 5.0%, 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°
19,3°C
Annual rain
556mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,67
Runoff
13mm/an
PET
1 670mm
AET
470mm
Mean slope
1,3°
Water table
239cm
Forest
19%
Crops
5%
Urban
0%
Protected
14%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)