HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #5080512450
Bassin de Gingham Watercourse
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 : Gwydir, Moree Plains
Sub-basin area
3 336,1km²
Upstream area
14 331,7km²
Discharge
18,16m³/s
Mean elev.
245m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Warialda Creek793 km²
- Bassin de Gwydir River268 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 2176.2 km²65.3% of basin
- 1155.7 km²34.7% of basin
4 intersecting protected areas
Gwydir Wetlands
IUCN IIState Conservation Area
70.18 km² overlap
Bullala
IUCN IICCA Zone 1 National Park
38.25 km² overlap
Gwydir Wetlands: Gingham and Lower Gwydir (Big Leather) Watercourses
IUCN Not ReportedWetland of International Importance (Ramsar Site)
2.35 km² overlap
Midkin
IUCN IaNature Reserve
1.68 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
1 733 distinct species · 102 123 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 25 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 Gingham Watercourse : 17 espèces reliées par 40 interactions GloBI sur 2 types (connectance 12.3%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 9 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°
18,9°C
Annual rain
602mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,62
Runoff
26mm/an
PET
1 607mm
AET
509mm
Mean slope
1,0°
Water table
172cm
Forest
11%
Crops
13%
Urban
0%
Protected
2%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)