HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #5080514180
Bassin de Broadwater 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 : Clarence Valley, Richmond Valley
Sub-basin area
241,3km²
Upstream area
20 900,8km²
Discharge
127,23m³/s
Mean elev.
41m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Clarence River575 km²
- Bassin de Sportsmans Creek329 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 240.8 km²99.9% of basin
- 0.2 km²0.1% of basin
4 intersecting protected areas
Kooyong
IUCN IIState Conservation Area
7.44 km² overlap
Lawrence Road
IUCN IIState Conservation Area
3.30 km² overlap
Woodford Island
IUCN IaNature Reserve
0.65 km² overlap
Munro Island
IUCN IVNature Reserve
0.16 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
1 617 distinct species · 32 855 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 34 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 Broadwater Creek : 26 espèces dont 2 patrimoniales (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 40 interactions GloBI sur 3 types (connectance 6.7%, 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°
19,2°C
Annual rain
1 253mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,05
Runoff
309mm/an
PET
1 326mm
AET
1 028mm
Mean slope
2,6°
Water table
162cm
Forest
68%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
6%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)