HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #5080599390
Bassin de Murrumbidgee 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 : Queanbeyan, Unincorporated Australian Capita
Sub-basin area
232,4km²
Upstream area
6 082,7km²
Discharge
18,83m³/s
Mean elev.
658m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Naas Creek681 km²
- Bassin de Murrumbidgee River674 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 222.5 km²95.7% of basin
- 10.0 km²4.3% of basin
13 intersecting protected areas
Bullen Range
IUCN IVNature Reserve
30.32 km² overlap
Rob Roy
IUCN IVNature Reserve
12.03 km² overlap
Namadgi
IUCN IINational Park
7.52 km² overlap
Tuggeranong Hill
IUCN IVNature Reserve
3.63 km² overlap
Urambi Hills
IUCN IVNature Reserve
2.46 km² overlap
Melrose
IUCN IVNature Reserve
1.97 km² overlap
Mt Taylor
IUCN IVNature Reserve
1.81 km² overlap
Wanniassa Hills
IUCN IVNature Reserve
1.70 km² overlap
Cooleman Ridge
IUCN IVNature Reserve
1.48 km² overlap
4 more protected areassorted by overlap area
Farrer Ridge
IUCN IVNature Reserve
1.35 km² overlap
Gigerline
IUCN IVNature Reserve
0.82 km² overlap
McQuoids Hill
IUCN IVNature Reserve
0.56 km² overlap
Namadgi
IUCN IINational Park
0.00 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
2 866 distinct species · 491 229 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 23 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 Murrumbidgee River : 15 espèces reliées par 36 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 13.0%, 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°
12,5°C
Annual rain
738mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,40
Runoff
143mm/an
PET
1 232mm
AET
629mm
Mean slope
6,3°
Water table
414cm
Forest
14%
Crops
0%
Urban
30%
Protected
28%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)