HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #5080543720
Bassin de Peel 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 3 administrative regions : Gunnedah, Liverpool Plains, Tamworth Regional
Sub-basin area
921km²
Upstream area
4 684,8km²
Discharge
2,61m³/s
Mean elev.
449m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Timbumburi Creek471 km²
- Bassin de Moore Creek200 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 907.3 km²98.6% of basin
- 12.5 km²1.4% of basin
- 0.4 km²0.0% of basin
2 intersecting protected areas
Somerton
IUCN IaCCA Zone 1 National Park
0.67 km² overlap
Melville Range
IUCN IaNature Reserve
0.01 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
1 480 distinct species · 40 045 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 29 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 Peel River : 20 espèces reliées par 48 interactions GloBI sur 3 types (connectance 11.0%, 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°
16,5°C
Annual rain
679mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,53
Runoff
20mm/an
PET
1 465mm
AET
575mm
Mean slope
3,8°
Water table
547cm
Forest
11%
Crops
38%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)