HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #5080612920
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 : Baw Baw, Wellington
Sub-basin area
962,4km²
Upstream area
2 157km²
Discharge
21,35m³/s
Mean elev.
365m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Macalister River862 km²
- Bassin de Wellington River332 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 961.7 km²99.9% of basin
- 1.3 km²0.1% of basin
13 intersecting protected areas
Alpine
IUCN IINational Park
39.01 km² overlap
Avon - Mt Hedrick N.F.S.R.
IUCN IIINatural Features Reserve
21.55 km² overlap
Macalister Gorge N.F.S.R.
IUCN IIINatural Features Reserve
12.15 km² overlap
Twenty Acre Creek
IUCN IaReference Area
10.39 km² overlap
Stringybark Creek
IUCN IaReference Area
6.77 km² overlap
Mount Useful N.F.S.R.
IUCN IIINatural Features Reserve
3.25 km² overlap
Glenmaggie N.C.R.
IUCN IaNatural Features Reserve
2.38 km² overlap
Natural Catchment Area
0.16 km² overlap
Avon
IUCN IbWilderness Park
0.08 km² overlap
4 more protected areassorted by overlap area
Coongulla I6 B.R.
IUCN IVNatural Features Reserve
0.06 km² overlap
Coongulla I7 B.R
IUCN IVNatural Features Reserve
0.03 km² overlap
Macalister River SS.R.
IUCN IIINatural Features Reserve
0.03 km² overlap
Glenmaggie N.F.S.R.
IUCN IIINatural Features Reserve
0.02 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
2 410 distinct species · 56 089 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 34 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 : 25 espèces reliées par 54 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 9.1%, 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°
12,1°C
Annual rain
1 040mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,09
Runoff
270mm/an
PET
1 114mm
AET
759mm
Mean slope
10,8°
Water table
373cm
Forest
71%
Crops
1%
Urban
0%
Protected
10%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)