HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #5080463570
Bassin de Cressbrook 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 : Somerset, Toowoomba
Sub-basin area
1 390,1km²
Upstream area
4 715,2km²
Discharge
11,06m³/s
Mean elev.
313m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Cooyar Creek2328 km²
- Bassin de Emu Creek998 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 976.9 km²70.4% of basin
- 410.8 km²29.6% of basin
9 intersecting protected areas
Deer Reserve
IUCN IINational Park
19.58 km² overlap
Crows Nest
IUCN IINational Park
17.96 km² overlap
Deer Reserve
IUCN IIIConservation Park
7.29 km² overlap
Pine Cliffs
IUCN VINature Refuge
5.33 km² overlap
Cressbrook
IUCN IIIConservation Park
3.01 km² overlap
Ravensbourne
IUCN IINational Park
0.58 km² overlap
Somerset-Wivenhoe Dams
IUCN VINature Refuge
0.48 km² overlap
JAL
IUCN VINature Refuge
0.22 km² overlap
Hampton
IUCN IINational Park
0.04 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
2 869 distinct species · 55 992 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 30 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 Cressbrook Creek : 22 espèces dont 1 patrimoniale (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 28 interactions GloBI sur 3 types (connectance 6.4%, 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°
18,5°C
Annual rain
915mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,38
Runoff
104mm/an
PET
1 491mm
AET
775mm
Mean slope
6,1°
Water table
363cm
Forest
41%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
3%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)