HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #5080610980
Bassin de Macalister 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 : Mansfield, Wellington
Sub-basin area
861,9km²
Upstream area
862,1km²
Discharge
10,94m³/s
Mean elev.
991m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 601.8 km²69.8% of basin
- 260.5 km²30.2% of basin
6 intersecting protected areas
Alpine
IUCN IINational Park
537.73 km² overlap
Macalister Area
IUCN IIRemote and Natural Area - Schedule 6, National Parks Act
334.34 km² overlap
Mount Skene N.F.S.R.
IUCN IIINatural Features Reserve
5.86 km² overlap
East Caledonia
IUCN IaReference Area
5.59 km² overlap
Mount Darling - Snowy Bluff
IUCN IbWilderness Zone
0.21 km² overlap
Razor - Viking
IUCN IbWilderness Zone
0.00 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
2 075 distinct species · 23 488 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 49 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 Macalister River : 42 espèces dont 4 patrimoniales (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 47 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 4.0%, 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°
9,1°C
Annual rain
1 442mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,29
Runoff
372mm/an
PET
1 001mm
AET
817mm
Mean slope
17,4°
Water table
579cm
Forest
100%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
63%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)