HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #5080543540
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 4 administrative regions : Armidale Dumaresq, Kempsey, Nambucca, Walcha
Sub-basin area
815,8km²
Upstream area
9 452,2km²
Discharge
55,2m³/s
Mean elev.
346m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Macleay River750 km²
- Bassin de Five Day Creek286 km²
4 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 809.6 km²99.3% of basin
- 3.5 km²0.4% of basin
- 1.2 km²0.1% of basin
- 0.8 km²0.1% of basin
13 intersecting protected areas
New England
IUCN IbNational Park
145.88 km² overlap
Carrai
IUCN IINational Park
35.55 km² overlap
The Castles
IUCN IaNature Reserve
27.15 km² overlap
Gondwana Rainforests of Australia
IUCN Not ApplicableWorld Heritage Site (natural or mixed)
24.59 km² overlap
Carrai
IUCN IIState Conservation Area
23.96 km² overlap
Willi Willi
IUCN IbNational Park
18.70 km² overlap
Fifes Knob
IUCN IaNature Reserve
5.51 km² overlap
Gads Sugarloaf
IUCN IaNature Reserve
4.78 km² overlap
Pee Dee
IUCN IaNature Reserve
1.09 km² overlap
4 more protected areassorted by overlap area
Oxley Wild Rivers
IUCN IbNational Park
0.73 km² overlap
Kilprotay
IUCN IaFlora Reserve
0.26 km² overlap
Willi Willi Caves
IUCN IaNature Reserve
0.03 km² overlap
Gumbaynggirr
IUCN IINational Park
0.00 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
1 912 distinct species · 58 845 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 32 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 : 28 espèces dont 1 patrimoniale (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 36 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 7.3%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 4 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°
16,7°C
Annual rain
1 255mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,06
Runoff
320mm/an
PET
1 343mm
AET
1 043mm
Mean slope
13,9°
Water table
513cm
Forest
86%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
30%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)