HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #5080612080
Bassin de Yarra 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 12 administrative regions : Boroondara, Brimbank, Glen Eira, Hume, Melbourne +7
Sub-basin area
290,9km²
Upstream area
4 026,1km²
Discharge
50,92m³/s
Mean elev.
92m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Merri Creek405 km²
- Bassin de Darebin Creek211 km²
12 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 90.5 km²31.1% of basin
- 36.0 km²12.4% of basin
- 33.0 km²11.3% of basin
- 31.9 km²11.0% of basin
- 26.3 km²9.0% of basin
- 24.4 km²8.4% of basin
- 22.8 km²7.8% of basin
- 11.2 km²3.9% of basin
4 moreFull L2 list
- Yarra7.2 km² · 2.5%
- Port Phillip4.3 km² · 1.5%
- Glen Eira3.5 km² · 1.2%
- Brimbank0.0 km² · 0.0%
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
8 706 distinct species · 1 745 167 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 Yarra River : 22 espèces reliées par 74 interactions GloBI sur 6 types (connectance 13.2%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 12 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°
14,5°C
Annual rain
703mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,37
Runoff
238mm/an
PET
1 109mm
AET
598mm
Mean slope
1,9°
Water table
176cm
Forest
0%
Crops
1%
Urban
82%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)