HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #5080593360
Bassin de Merrimajeel Creek
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 : Balranald, Carrathool, Hay
Sub-basin area
2 548km²
Upstream area
72 807,4km²
Discharge
26,14m³/s
Mean elev.
84m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 4 basins
- Bassin · #50800905201908 km²
- Bassin de Wah Wah Creek1135 km²
- Bassin de Lachlan River221 km²
- Bassin de Lachlan River195 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 1171.8 km²46.0% of basin
- 1098.0 km²43.1% of basin
- 277.5 km²10.9% of basin
2 intersecting protected areas
Kalyarr
IUCN IINational Park
145.88 km² overlap
Lachlan Valley
IUCN IIState Conservation Area
25.66 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
863 distinct species · 23 483 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 36 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 Merrimajeel Creek : 28 espèces dont 2 patrimoniales (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 54 interactions GloBI sur 2 types (connectance 8.1%, 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°
17,3°C
Annual rain
350mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,76
Runoff
16mm/an
PET
1 461mm
AET
297mm
Mean slope
0,0°
Water table
15cm
Forest
5%
Crops
11%
Urban
0%
Protected
3%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)