HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #5080596490
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 : Swan Hill, Wakool
Sub-basin area
1 147,5km²
Upstream area
77 960,2km²
Discharge
293,89m³/s
Mean elev.
71m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Murray River325 km²
- Bassin de Little Murray River67 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 729.7 km²63.6% of basin
- 417.8 km²36.4% of basin
11 intersecting protected areas
River Murray Reserve
IUCN VINatural Features Reserve
17.59 km² overlap
Nyah-Vinifera Park
IUCN IIConservation Park
13.61 km² overlap
Nyah B.R.
IUCN IVNatural Features Reserve
1.62 km² overlap
Wood Wood F.F.R
IUCN IaNature Conservation Reserve
0.36 km² overlap
Natural Features Reserve
0.17 km² overlap
Bulgei B.R.
IUCN IVNatural Features Reserve
0.17 km² overlap
Woorinen South B.R.
IUCN IVNatural Features Reserve
0.12 km² overlap
Bower Tank B.R.
IUCN IVNatural Features Reserve
0.11 km² overlap
Pira B.R.
IUCN IVNatural Features Reserve
0.04 km² overlap
2 more protected areassorted by overlap area
Miralie B.R.
IUCN IVNatural Features Reserve
0.02 km² overlap
Piangil B.R.
IUCN IVNatural Features Reserve
0.00 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
1 464 distinct species · 55 359 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 29 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 47 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 11.6%, 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°
16,4°C
Annual rain
362mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,74
Runoff
6mm/an
PET
1 402mm
AET
308mm
Mean slope
0,3°
Water table
91cm
Forest
0%
Crops
46%
Urban
1%
Protected
3%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)