HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #5080591290
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
1 202,8km²
Upstream area
756 532,3km²
Discharge
329,38m³/s
Mean elev.
41m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Great Darling Anabranch2025 km²
- Bassin de Murray River116 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 832.4 km²69.2% of basin
- 370.1 km²30.8% of basin
3 intersecting protected areas
Murray - Sunset
IUCN IINational Park
212.73 km² overlap
Unnamed P0268
IUCN IaPrivate Nature Reserve
123.09 km² overlap
Merrinee B.R.
IUCN IVNatural Features Reserve
0.01 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
1 367 distinct species · 47 811 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 31 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 : 21 espèces dont 2 patrimoniales (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 46 interactions GloBI sur 3 types (connectance 8.7%, 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°
17,2°C
Annual rain
287mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,80
Runoff
7mm/an
PET
1 465mm
AET
244mm
Mean slope
0,2°
Water table
79cm
Forest
3%
Crops
38%
Urban
0%
Protected
18%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)