HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #5080608390
Bassin de Snowy 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 4 administrative regions : Bombala, East Gippsland, Snowy River, Tumbarumba
Sub-basin area
528,7km²
Upstream area
9 308,6km²
Discharge
33,94m³/s
Mean elev.
742m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Byadbo Creek972 km²
- Bassin de Jacobs River226 km²
4 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 207.8 km²39.3% of basin
- 173.8 km²32.9% of basin
- 147.1 km²27.8% of basin
- 0.3 km²0.1% of basin
9 intersecting protected areas
Kosciuszko
IUCN IINational Park
355.55 km² overlap
Alpine
IUCN IINational Park
166.79 km² overlap
Upper Snowy Area
IUCN IIRemote and Natural Area - Schedule 6, National Parks Act
72.13 km² overlap
Snowy River
IUCN VHeritage River
71.71 km² overlap
Tingaringy
IUCN IbWilderness Zone
38.73 km² overlap
Suggan Buggan
IUCN IIRemote and Natural Area - Schedule 6, National Parks Act
19.10 km² overlap
Gattamurh Creek
IUCN IbNatural Catchment Area
10.27 km² overlap
Beehive Creek
IUCN IaReference Area
7.98 km² overlap
Cobberas
IUCN IIWilderness Zone
1.30 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
1 569 distinct species · 20 454 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 37 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 Snowy River : 30 espèces dont 3 patrimoniales (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 52 interactions GloBI sur 5 types (connectance 7.8%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 7 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°
11,0°C
Annual rain
970mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,14
Runoff
127mm/an
PET
1 112mm
AET
745mm
Mean slope
16,3°
Water table
556cm
Forest
100%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
99%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)