HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #5080496960
Bassin · #5080496960
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 : Maralinga Tjarutja
Sub-basin area
25,7km²
Upstream area
12 946,9km²
Discharge
3,06m³/s
Mean elev.
276m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin · #5080496480798 km²
- Bassin · #5080496420286 km²
1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 25.7 km²100.0% of basin
2 intersecting protected areas
Mamungari
IUCN IaConservation Park
25.70 km² overlap
Maralinga Tjarutja Lands
IUCN VIIndigenous Protected Area
25.70 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
3 distinct species · 5 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Not enough documented interactions to build a meaningful graph for this territory.
Hydroclimate (BasinATLAS lev08)
Mean T°
19,6°C
Annual rain
178mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,90
Runoff
2mm/an
PET
1 739mm
AET
148mm
Mean slope
0,6°
Water table
109cm
Forest
0%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
100%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)