HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #5080562740
Bassin de Helena 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 8 administrative regions : Armadale, Beverley, Kalamunda, Mundaring, Northam +3
Sub-basin area
1 664,9km²
Upstream area
1 664,9km²
Discharge
13,93m³/s
Mean elev.
278m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
8 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 528.7 km²31.8% of basin
- 429.9 km²25.8% of basin
- 369.1 km²22.2% of basin
- 196.3 km²11.8% of basin
- 103.0 km²6.2% of basin
- 23.3 km²1.4% of basin
- 11.5 km²0.7% of basin
- 2.0 km²0.1% of basin
15 intersecting protected areas
Wandoo
IUCN IINational Park
360.33 km² overlap
Helena
IUCN IINational Park
120.51 km² overlap
Beelu
IUCN IINational Park
45.89 km² overlap
Korung
IUCN IINational Park
16.33 km² overlap
Kalamunda
IUCN IINational Park
3.97 km² overlap
Greenmount
IUCN IINational Park
1.64 km² overlap
Gooseberry Hill
IUCN IINational Park
1.07 km² overlap
Unnamed WA45106
IUCN V5(1)(g) Reserve
0.46 km² overlap
Helena River
IUCN Not AssignedManagement Area
0.36 km² overlap
6 more protected areassorted by overlap area
Woottating
IUCN IaNature Reserve
0.27 km² overlap
Unnamed WA49079
IUCN IaNature Reserve
0.10 km² overlap
Conservation Covenant
0.02 km² overlap
Unnamed WA18130
IUCN II5(1)(h) Reserve
0.01 km² overlap
John Forrest
IUCN IINational Park
0.00 km² overlap
Unnamed WA39844
IUCN IV5(1)(h) Reserve
0.00 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
3 993 distinct species · 191 256 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 Helena River : 25 espèces reliées par 39 interactions GloBI sur 3 types (connectance 7.0%, 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°
16,7°C
Annual rain
806mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,43
Runoff
261mm/an
PET
1 418mm
AET
627mm
Mean slope
3,6°
Water table
489cm
Forest
92%
Crops
13%
Urban
3%
Protected
33%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)