HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #5080515200
Bassin de Sportsmans 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
329,3km²
Upstream area
329,3km²
Discharge
2,88m³/s
Mean elev.
77m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 328.5 km²99.9% of basin
- 0.4 km²0.1% of basin
7 intersecting protected areas
Banyabba
IUCN IaNature Reserve
102.15 km² overlap
Banyabba
IUCN IIState Conservation Area
31.29 km² overlap
Fortis Creek
IUCN IbNational Park
20.46 km² overlap
Everlasting Swamp
IUCN IINational Park
14.32 km² overlap
Gurranang
IUCN IIState Conservation Area
1.14 km² overlap
Lawrence Road
IUCN IIState Conservation Area
1.10 km² overlap
Everlasting Swamp
IUCN IIState Conservation Area
0.24 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
1 304 distinct species · 17 123 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 31 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 Sportsmans Creek : 22 espèces dont 1 patrimoniale (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 36 interactions GloBI sur 3 types (connectance 7.3%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 10 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°
19,0°C
Annual rain
1 186mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,14
Runoff
279mm/an
PET
1 372mm
AET
1 003mm
Mean slope
3,7°
Water table
195cm
Forest
94%
Crops
1%
Urban
0%
Protected
49%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)