HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #5080595260
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 : Balranald, Swan Hill
Sub-basin area
279,3km²
Upstream area
234 105,2km²
Discharge
397,91m³/s
Mean elev.
62m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Murrumbidgee River507 km²
- Bassin de Murray River314 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 189.3 km²67.8% of basin
- 90.0 km²32.2% of basin
5 intersecting protected areas
River Murray Reserve
IUCN VINatural Features Reserve
6.93 km² overlap
Wandown F.F.R
IUCN IaNature Conservation Reserve
4.30 km² overlap
Yungera B.R.
IUCN IVNatural Features Reserve
0.27 km² overlap
Passage Camp N.C.R.
IUCN IaNatural Features Reserve
0.21 km² overlap
Natural Features Reserve
0.17 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
766 distinct species · 8 515 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 : 20 espèces reliées par 53 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 11.4%, 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°
16,8°C
Annual rain
345mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,76
Runoff
5mm/an
PET
1 439mm
AET
293mm
Mean slope
0,3°
Water table
67cm
Forest
11%
Crops
64%
Urban
0%
Protected
4%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)