HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #5080566550
Bassin de Hunter 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 4 administrative regions : Dungog, Gloucester, Tamworth Regional, Upper Hunter
Sub-basin area
1 314,3km²
Upstream area
1 314,3km²
Discharge
2,91m³/s
Mean elev.
756m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
4 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 1309.8 km²99.7% of basin
- 2.0 km²0.2% of basin
- 1.5 km²0.1% of basin
- 0.0 km²0.0% of basin
6 intersecting protected areas
Barrington Tops
IUCN IbNational Park
95.26 km² overlap
Barrington Tops
IUCN IIState Conservation Area
33.61 km² overlap
Ben Halls Gap
IUCN IaNature Reserve
4.48 km² overlap
Woolooma
IUCN IINational Park
4.06 km² overlap
Gondwana Rainforests of Australia
IUCN Not ApplicableWorld Heritage Site (natural or mixed)
1.98 km² overlap
Paddys Brush
IUCN IaFlora Reserve
0.72 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
2 397 distinct species · 32 276 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 40 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 Hunter River : 32 espèces dont 2 patrimoniales (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 55 interactions GloBI sur 5 types (connectance 7.1%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 8 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°
14,0°C
Annual rain
900mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,28
Runoff
94mm/an
PET
1 278mm
AET
751mm
Mean slope
11,6°
Water table
570cm
Forest
73%
Crops
4%
Urban
0%
Protected
11%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)