HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #5080613560
Bassin de Moorabool River East Branch
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 : Ballarat, Golden Plains, Greater Geelong, Hepburn, Moorabool
Sub-basin area
1 124,1km²
Upstream area
1 124,1km²
Discharge
8,18m³/s
Mean elev.
386m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
5 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 698.4 km²62.1% of basin
- 320.4 km²28.5% of basin
- 102.8 km²9.1% of basin
- 1.6 km²0.1% of basin
- 1.5 km²0.1% of basin
17 intersecting protected areas
Brisbane Ranges
IUCN IINational Park
27.64 km² overlap
Durdidwarrah Creek
IUCN IaReference Area
2.05 km² overlap
Mount Warrenheip F.R
IUCN IaNature Conservation Reserve
0.72 km² overlap
Lal Lal Falls S.R.
IUCN IIINatural Features Reserve
0.70 km² overlap
Moreep I44 B.R
IUCN IVNatural Features Reserve
0.34 km² overlap
Unnamed P0296
IUCN IIIPrivate Nature Reserve
0.16 km² overlap
Mount Anakie S.R.
IUCN IIINatural Features Reserve
0.11 km² overlap
Coolebarchurk SS.R.
IUCN IIINatural Features Reserve
0.10 km² overlap
Moreep B.R.
IUCN IVNatural Features Reserve
0.10 km² overlap
8 more protected areassorted by overlap area
Buninyong H18 B.R
IUCN IVNatural Features Reserve
0.09 km² overlap
Mount Buninyong S.R.
IUCN IIINatural Features Reserve
0.07 km² overlap
Durdidwarrah B.R.
IUCN IVNatural Features Reserve
0.03 km² overlap
Bunding SS.R.
IUCN IIINatural Features Reserve
0.03 km² overlap
Moorarbool West I105 B.R
IUCN IVNatural Features Reserve
0.03 km² overlap
Gordon B.R.
IUCN IVNatural Features Reserve
0.01 km² overlap
Bolwarrah F.R.
IUCN IaNature Conservation Reserve
0.01 km² overlap
Mount Doran B.R.
IUCN IVNatural Features Reserve
0.01 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
3 754 distinct species · 230 623 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 26 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 Moorabool River East Branch : 18 espèces dont 2 patrimoniales (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 50 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 13.2%, 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°
12,5°C
Annual rain
753mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,29
Runoff
212mm/an
PET
1 058mm
AET
622mm
Mean slope
2,6°
Water table
218cm
Forest
31%
Crops
6%
Urban
0%
Protected
3%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)