HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #5080511570
Bassin de Culgoa 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 2 administrative regions : Balonne, Brewarrina
Sub-basin area
736,1km²
Upstream area
95 584,9km²
Discharge
50,69m³/s
Mean elev.
132m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Wallam Creek1080 km²
- Bassin de Culgoa River542 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 651.8 km²88.7% of basin
- 83.4 km²11.3% of basin
3 intersecting protected areas
Culgoa
IUCN IINational Park
109.10 km² overlap
Culgoa Floodplain
IUCN IINational Park
77.80 km² overlap
Weilmoringle
IUCN VIndigenous Protected Area
7.70 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
652 distinct species · 5 351 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 37 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 Culgoa River : 27 espèces reliées par 40 interactions GloBI sur 3 types (connectance 5.7%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 11 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°
20,4°C
Annual rain
415mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,75
Runoff
20mm/an
PET
1 661mm
AET
350mm
Mean slope
0,0°
Water table
11cm
Forest
6%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
24%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)