HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #5080583730
Bassin de Rocky 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 : Mount Remarkable, Northern Areas, Orroroo/Carrieton, Port Pirie City and Dists
Sub-basin area
1 949,3km²
Upstream area
1 949,7km²
Discharge
1,81m³/s
Mean elev.
354m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
4 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 1276.2 km²65.5% of basin
- 465.3 km²23.9% of basin
- 131.8 km²6.8% of basin
- 75.2 km²3.9% of basin
9 intersecting protected areas
National Park
15.77 km² overlap
Unnamed (No.HA127)
IUCN IIIHeritage Agreement
2.14 km² overlap
Unnamed (No.HA159)
IUCN IIIHeritage Agreement
1.08 km² overlap
Unnamed (No.HA912)
IUCN IIIHeritage Agreement
0.35 km² overlap
Unnamed (No.HA1550)
IUCN IIIHeritage Agreement
0.22 km² overlap
Unnamed (No.HA262)
IUCN IIIHeritage Agreement
0.13 km² overlap
Unnamed (No.HA1494)
IUCN IIIHeritage Agreement
0.13 km² overlap
Unnamed (No.HA1499)
IUCN IIIHeritage Agreement
0.11 km² overlap
Unnamed (No.HA40)
IUCN IIIHeritage Agreement
0.01 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
1 473 distinct species · 34 348 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 35 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 Rocky River : 27 espèces dont 1 patrimoniale (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 71 interactions GloBI sur 5 types (connectance 10.1%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 11 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°
15,6°C
Annual rain
477mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,65
Runoff
24mm/an
PET
1 380mm
AET
405mm
Mean slope
2,2°
Water table
829cm
Forest
3%
Crops
59%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)