HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #5080591050
Bassin de Murray 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 2 administrative regions : Mildura, Wentworth
Sub-basin area
1 099,7km²
Upstream area
249 850,2km²
Discharge
351,79m³/s
Mean elev.
54m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 20 basins
- Bassin de Yarriambiack Creek3345 km²
- Bassin · #50800898702688 km²
- Bassin de Waranga Western Channel2590 km²
- Bassin · #50800900202441 km²
- Bassin de Lalbert Creek1927 km²
- + 15 more
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 673.8 km²61.3% of basin
- 425.7 km²38.7% of basin
15 intersecting protected areas
Kings Billabong Park
IUCN IIConservation Park
21.89 km² overlap
River Murray Reserve
IUCN VINatural Features Reserve
17.55 km² overlap
Wargan-Mallee B.R.
IUCN IVNatural Features Reserve
14.41 km² overlap
Lambert Island N.C.R.
IUCN IaNatural Features Reserve
11.00 km² overlap
Mallee Cliffs
IUCN IaNational Park
5.65 km² overlap
Murray - Sunset
IUCN IINational Park
1.02 km² overlap
Natural Features Reserve
0.59 km² overlap
Mildura I15 B.R.
IUCN IVNatural Features Reserve
0.52 km² overlap
Red Cliffs S.R.
IUCN IIINatural Features Reserve
0.26 km² overlap
6 more protected areassorted by overlap area
Mildura I220A B.R.
IUCN IVNatural Features Reserve
0.24 km² overlap
Mildura I13 B.R
IUCN IVNatural Features Reserve
0.08 km² overlap
Mildura I14 B.R
IUCN IVNatural Features Reserve
0.07 km² overlap
Red Cliffs N.F.R
IUCN IVNatural Features Reserve
0.01 km² overlap
Merbein B.R.
IUCN IVNatural Features Reserve
0.01 km² overlap
Red Cliffs (Ovens Av) N.F.R.
IUCN IVNatural Features Reserve
0.00 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
2 520 distinct species · 189 767 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 Murray River : 24 espèces dont 1 patrimoniale (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 49 interactions GloBI sur 2 types (connectance 7.8%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 12 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°
17,0°C
Annual rain
302mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,79
Runoff
12mm/an
PET
1 452mm
AET
256mm
Mean slope
0,4°
Water table
149cm
Forest
3%
Crops
18%
Urban
3%
Protected
7%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)