HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #5080510760
Bassin · #5080510760
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 : Maralinga Tjarutja, Unincorporated South Australia
Sub-basin area
508,5km²
Upstream area
27 408,6km²
Discharge
10,43m³/s
Mean elev.
190m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin · #5080507550776 km²
- Bassin · #5080507440155 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 497.6 km²98.0% of basin
- 10.2 km²2.0% of basin
2 intersecting protected areas
Tallaringa
IUCN VIConservation Park
497.38 km² overlap
Maralinga Tjarutja Lands
IUCN IaIndigenous Protected Area
10.46 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
24 distinct species · 29 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°
20,1°C
Annual rain
171mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,90
Runoff
2mm/an
PET
1 712mm
AET
142mm
Mean slope
0,5°
Water table
186cm
Forest
0%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
98%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)