HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #5080570350
Bassin de Merriwa 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 : Liverpool Plains, Mid-Western Regional, Muswellbrook, Upper Hunter
Sub-basin area
807,4km²
Upstream area
807,5km²
Discharge
0,86m³/s
Mean elev.
392m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
4 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 803.2 km²99.5% of basin
- 2.3 km²0.3% of basin
- 1.3 km²0.2% of basin
- 0.0 km²0.0% of basin
2 intersecting protected areas
Goulburn River
IUCN IINational Park
94.72 km² overlap
Towarri
IUCN IINational Park
0.02 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
1 283 distinct species · 23 353 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 28 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 Merriwa River : 21 espèces reliées par 44 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 10.1%, 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°
16,1°C
Annual rain
710mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,49
Runoff
35mm/an
PET
1 407mm
AET
603mm
Mean slope
6,6°
Water table
620cm
Forest
45%
Crops
9%
Urban
0%
Protected
12%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)