HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #5080612940
Bassin de Mount Emu 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 5 administrative regions : Ararat, Corangamite, Golden Plains, Moyne, Pyrenees
Sub-basin area
794,8km²
Upstream area
1 952,1km²
Discharge
12,34m³/s
Mean elev.
263m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Mount Emu Creek636 km²
- Bassin de Baillies Creek521 km²
5 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 415.6 km²52.3% of basin
- 277.1 km²34.8% of basin
- 60.9 km²7.7% of basin
- 33.7 km²4.2% of basin
- 8.0 km²1.0% of basin
9 intersecting protected areas
Blacks Creek N.C.R.
IUCN IaNatural Features Reserve
2.41 km² overlap
Salt Lake, Streatham W.R
IUCN VINatural Features Reserve
1.02 km² overlap
Black Lake W.R
IUCN IaNature Conservation Reserve
0.83 km² overlap
Pink Lake W.R
IUCN VINatural Features Reserve
0.44 km² overlap
Blue Lake W.R
IUCN VINatural Features Reserve
0.40 km² overlap
Darlington Common F.R
IUCN IaNature Conservation Reserve
0.35 km² overlap
Lake Kornong W.R
IUCN VINatural Features Reserve
0.15 km² overlap
Vite Vite SS.R.
IUCN IIINatural Features Reserve
0.03 km² overlap
Skipton SS.R.
IUCN IIINatural Features Reserve
0.02 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
1 403 distinct species · 33 915 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 Mount Emu Creek : 25 espèces dont 2 patrimoniales (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 71 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 12.7%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 9 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°
13,0°C
Annual rain
614mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,45
Runoff
207mm/an
PET
1 124mm
AET
524mm
Mean slope
0,8°
Water table
74cm
Forest
1%
Crops
17%
Urban
0%
Protected
1%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)