HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #5080481490
Bassin de Moonie 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 3 administrative regions : Balonne, Goondiwindi, Western Downs
Sub-basin area
821km²
Upstream area
6 766,2km²
Discharge
3,86m³/s
Mean elev.
238m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Farawell Creek591 km²
- Bassin de Moonie River18 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 356.5 km²43.5% of basin
- 292.7 km²35.7% of basin
- 170.5 km²20.8% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Alton
IUCN IINational Park
5.58 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
443 distinct species · 2 312 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 43 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 Moonie River : 38 espèces dont 1 patrimoniale (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 38 interactions GloBI sur 3 types (connectance 4.2%, 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°
20,0°C
Annual rain
556mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,66
Runoff
16mm/an
PET
1 641mm
AET
470mm
Mean slope
0,5°
Water table
154cm
Forest
9%
Crops
10%
Urban
0%
Protected
1%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)