HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #5080618510
Bassin de Pieman 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 : Waratah/Wynyard, West Coast
Sub-basin area
720,8km²
Upstream area
2 768,2km²
Discharge
144,23m³/s
Mean elev.
322m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Hatfield River498 km²
- Bassin de Pieman River221 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 506.5 km²70.2% of basin
- 215.3 km²29.8% of basin
8 intersecting protected areas
Meredith Range
IUCN VIRegional Reserve
392.49 km² overlap
Mount Heemskirk
IUCN VIRegional Reserve
60.58 km² overlap
Pieman River
IUCN IIState Reserve
12.47 km² overlap
Lake Pieman
IUCN IVRegional Reserve
6.35 km² overlap
Renison Bell
IUCN VIRegional Reserve
4.15 km² overlap
Parting Creek
IUCN VIRegional Reserve
1.86 km² overlap
Bernafai Ridge
IUCN VIConservation Area
0.86 km² overlap
Yellow Creek
IUCN IIIState Reserve
0.72 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
918 distinct species · 5 067 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 28 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 Pieman River : 21 espèces dont 1 patrimoniale (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 26 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 6.9%, 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°
10,2°C
Annual rain
2 134mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,62
Runoff
1 406mm/an
PET
810mm
AET
787mm
Mean slope
8,4°
Water table
313cm
Forest
98%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
66%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)