HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #5080557120
Bassin de Castlereagh 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 : Coonamble, Gilgandra, Warrumbungle
Sub-basin area
1 681,4km²
Upstream area
1 681,4km²
Discharge
1m³/s
Mean elev.
552m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 1680.0 km²100.0% of basin
- 0.0 km²0.0% of basin
- 0.0 km²0.0% of basin
4 intersecting protected areas
Binnaway
IUCN IaNature Reserve
26.05 km² overlap
Warrumbungle
IUCN IINational Park
8.24 km² overlap
Cooleburba
IUCN IIState Conservation Area
3.96 km² overlap
Pilliga
IUCN IaNature Reserve
2.61 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
2 249 distinct species · 86 482 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 Castlereagh River : 27 espèces reliées par 45 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 7.1%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 9 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°
15,8°C
Annual rain
752mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,49
Runoff
18mm/an
PET
1 463mm
AET
638mm
Mean slope
3,3°
Water table
547cm
Forest
31%
Crops
13%
Urban
0%
Protected
2%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)