HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #5080502680
Bassin de Tenterfield 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 : Southern Downs, Tenterfield
Sub-basin area
782,6km²
Upstream area
782,8km²
Discharge
1,61m³/s
Mean elev.
851m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 767.7 km²98.2% of basin
- 13.9 km²1.8% of basin
7 intersecting protected areas
Bald Rock
IUCN IINational Park
11.15 km² overlap
Sundown
IUCN IINational Park
6.67 km² overlap
Donnybrook
IUCN IaNature Reserve
2.75 km² overlap
Currys Gap
IUCN IIState Conservation Area
2.19 km² overlap
Mount Mackenzie
IUCN IaNature Reserve
0.85 km² overlap
Doctors Nose Mountain
IUCN IaNature Reserve
0.66 km² overlap
Girraween
IUCN IINational Park
0.07 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
2 518 distinct species · 42 055 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 32 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 Tenterfield Creek : 25 espèces dont 2 patrimoniales (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 54 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 10.2%, 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°
14,9°C
Annual rain
866mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,34
Runoff
69mm/an
PET
1 325mm
AET
734mm
Mean slope
6,5°
Water table
506cm
Forest
44%
Crops
17%
Urban
0%
Protected
3%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)