HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #5080457960
Bassin de Murchison 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 1 administrative regions : Murchison
Sub-basin area
1 258,6km²
Upstream area
39 022,3km²
Discharge
0m³/s
Mean elev.
321m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Murchison River424 km²
- Bassin de Murchison River299 km²
1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 1256.4 km²100.0% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
180 distinct species · 715 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 34 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 Murchison River : 32 espèces reliées par 31 interactions GloBI sur 2 types (connectance 5.5%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 2 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
196mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,89
Runoff
9mm/an
PET
1 799mm
AET
163mm
Mean slope
0,3°
Water table
201cm
Forest
0%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)