HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #5080607860
Bassin de Hughes 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 : Mitchell, Murrindindi, Strathbogie
Sub-basin area
595km²
Upstream area
595km²
Discharge
3,38m³/s
Mean elev.
387m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 300.9 km²50.6% of basin
- 155.7 km²26.2% of basin
- 138.6 km²23.3% of basin
13 intersecting protected areas
Hughes Creek F.R
IUCN IaNature Conservation Reserve
1.36 km² overlap
Nature Conservation Reserve
1.31 km² overlap
Dropmore G46 B.R
IUCN IVNatural Features Reserve
0.49 km² overlap
Hughes Creek Hill B.R.
IUCN IVNatural Features Reserve
0.37 km² overlap
Dropmore G45 B.R.
IUCN IVNatural Features Reserve
0.35 km² overlap
Ruffy B.R.
IUCN IVNatural Features Reserve
0.27 km² overlap
Tabilk B.R.
IUCN IVNatural Features Reserve
0.18 km² overlap
Goulburn River
IUCN VHeritage River
0.16 km² overlap
Bishops Mitre Rock S.R.
IUCN IIINatural Features Reserve
0.09 km² overlap
4 more protected areassorted by overlap area
Gobur N.C.R
IUCN IaNatural Features Reserve
0.08 km² overlap
Ruffy F.R
IUCN IaNature Conservation Reserve
0.06 km² overlap
Kobyboyn B.R
IUCN IVNatural Features Reserve
0.00 km² overlap
Dropmore G101 B.R.
IUCN IVNatural Features Reserve
0.00 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
1 298 distinct species · 25 643 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 32 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 Hughes Creek : 23 espèces dont 1 patrimoniale (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 51 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 9.7%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 10 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°
13,2°C
Annual rain
795mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,32
Runoff
181mm/an
PET
1 183mm
AET
655mm
Mean slope
5,4°
Water table
359cm
Forest
12%
Crops
11%
Urban
0%
Protected
1%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)