HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #5080540850
Bassin de Macleay 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 : Armidale Dumaresq, Kempsey
Sub-basin area
749,8km²
Upstream area
8 350,1km²
Discharge
44,44m³/s
Mean elev.
614m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Kunderang Brook364 km²
- Bassin de Macleay River93 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 739.2 km²98.7% of basin
- 9.9 km²1.3% of basin
9 intersecting protected areas
Cunnawarra
IUCN IINational Park
156.00 km² overlap
Gondwana Rainforests of Australia
IUCN Not ApplicableWorld Heritage Site (natural or mixed)
96.75 km² overlap
Oxley Wild Rivers
IUCN IbNational Park
93.50 km² overlap
New England
IUCN IbNational Park
61.76 km² overlap
Carrai
IUCN IINational Park
48.10 km² overlap
Carrai
IUCN IIState Conservation Area
44.58 km² overlap
Georges Creek
IUCN IaNature Reserve
12.64 km² overlap
Jobs Mountain
IUCN IaNature Reserve
6.30 km² overlap
Ngiyungbayi
IUCN IIAboriginal Area
1.80 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
2 021 distinct species · 33 743 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 40 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 Macleay River : 34 espèces dont 2 patrimoniales (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 56 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 7.2%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 6 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°
15,3°C
Annual rain
1 106mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,15
Runoff
227mm/an
PET
1 307mm
AET
929mm
Mean slope
15,3°
Water table
634cm
Forest
97%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
58%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)