HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #5080553290
Bassin de Maria 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 : Kempsey, Port Macquarie-Hastings
Sub-basin area
972,8km²
Upstream area
972,8km²
Discharge
13,42m³/s
Mean elev.
163m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 693.3 km²71.3% of basin
- 278.7 km²28.7% of basin
13 intersecting protected areas
Kumbatine
IUCN IINational Park
92.90 km² overlap
Willi Willi
IUCN IbNational Park
87.25 km² overlap
Limeburners Creek
IUCN IbNational Park
43.28 km² overlap
Maria
IUCN IINational Park
21.71 km² overlap
Yarri Barri
IUCN IaNature Reserve
4.47 km² overlap
Kumbatine
IUCN IIState Conservation Area
3.88 km² overlap
Paperbark
IUCN IaFlora Reserve
3.85 km² overlap
Cooperabung Creek
IUCN IINature Reserve
3.22 km² overlap
Rawdon Creek
IUCN IINature Reserve
1.26 km² overlap
4 more protected areassorted by overlap area
Werrikimbe
IUCN IbNational Park
1.14 km² overlap
Gondwana Rainforests of Australia
IUCN Not ApplicableWorld Heritage Site (natural or mixed)
0.61 km² overlap
Goolawah
IUCN IINational Park
0.33 km² overlap
Mines Road
IUCN IaFlora Reserve
0.18 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
2 949 distinct species · 177 360 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 33 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 Maria River : 24 espèces dont 1 patrimoniale (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 40 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 7.1%, 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°
17,4°C
Annual rain
1 373mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,07
Runoff
425mm/an
PET
1 271mm
AET
1 061mm
Mean slope
6,8°
Water table
280cm
Forest
99%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
28%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)