HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #5080584160
Bassin de Colo 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 : Hawkesbury, Lithgow, The Hills
Sub-basin area
519,7km²
Upstream area
4 649,6km²
Discharge
27,43m³/s
Mean elev.
283m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Wollangambe River657 km²
- Bassin de Colo River293 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 519.4 km²100.0% of basin
- 0.0 km²0.0% of basin
- 0.0 km²0.0% of basin
5 intersecting protected areas
Greater Blue Mountains Area
IUCN Not ApplicableWorld Heritage Site (natural or mixed)
332.02 km² overlap
Wollemi
IUCN IbNational Park
331.77 km² overlap
Comleroy
IUCN IaFlora Reserve
29.08 km² overlap
Parr
IUCN IIState Conservation Area
16.53 km² overlap
Blue Mountains
IUCN IINational Park
2.27 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
2 881 distinct species · 83 379 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 30 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 Colo River : 20 espèces dont 1 patrimoniale (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 48 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 10.3%, 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°
15,8°C
Annual rain
1 094mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,16
Runoff
272mm/an
PET
1 302mm
AET
911mm
Mean slope
12,5°
Water table
450cm
Forest
100%
Crops
2%
Urban
0%
Protected
73%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)