HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #5080553360
Bassin de Mortons 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 1 administrative regions : Port Macquarie-Hastings
Sub-basin area
393,5km²
Upstream area
2 560,1km²
Discharge
31,39m³/s
Mean elev.
88m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Hastings River350 km²
- Bassin de Pappinbarra River254 km²
1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 393.1 km²100.0% of basin
3 intersecting protected areas
Bago Bluff
IUCN IINational Park
4.91 km² overlap
Rawdon Creek
IUCN IINature Reserve
4.26 km² overlap
Paperbark
IUCN IaFlora Reserve
1.08 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
2 494 distinct species · 148 853 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 34 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 Mortons Creek : 24 espèces reliées par 46 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 8.2%, 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°
17,7°C
Annual rain
1 392mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,09
Runoff
433mm/an
PET
1 266mm
AET
1 068mm
Mean slope
5,0°
Water table
213cm
Forest
99%
Crops
0%
Urban
3%
Protected
3%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)