HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #5080473900
Bassin de Merninie 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 : Bulloo, Unincorporated South Australia
Sub-basin area
310,8km²
Upstream area
310,9km²
Discharge
0,07m³/s
Mean elev.
111m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 258.8 km²83.4% of basin
- 51.5 km²16.6% of basin
2 intersecting protected areas
Innamincka
IUCN VIRegional Reserve
264.72 km² overlap
Coongie Lakes
IUCN Not ReportedWetland of International Importance (Ramsar Site)
69.21 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
229 distinct species · 783 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 29 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 Merninie Creek : 24 espèces dont 1 patrimoniale (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 29 interactions GloBI sur 2 types (connectance 7.1%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 5 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°
21,8°C
Annual rain
185mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,89
Runoff
8mm/an
PET
1 738mm
AET
156mm
Mean slope
1,5°
Water table
297cm
Forest
0%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
86%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)