HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #5080555320
Bassin de Arkaba 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 2 administrative regions : Flinders Ranges, Unincorporated South Australia
Sub-basin area
2 167,3km²
Upstream area
2 167,3km²
Discharge
0m³/s
Mean elev.
339m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 1123.4 km²51.9% of basin
- 1042.3 km²48.1% of basin
4 intersecting protected areas
Lake Torrens
IUCN VINational Park
152.93 km² overlap
Yappala
IUCN VIIndigenous Protected Area
99.70 km² overlap
Ikara-Flinders Ranges
IUCN IINational Park
19.76 km² overlap
Unnamed (No.HA1353)
IUCN IIIHeritage Agreement
11.53 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
1 205 distinct species · 19 785 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 38 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 Arkaba Creek : 22 espèces reliées par 55 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 7.4%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 17 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°
17,5°C
Annual rain
292mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,81
Runoff
7mm/an
PET
1 525mm
AET
248mm
Mean slope
2,9°
Water table
596cm
Forest
5%
Crops
4%
Urban
0%
Protected
9%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)