HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #5080618740
Bassin de Murchison 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 3 administrative regions : Central Highlands, Meander Valley, West Coast
Sub-basin area
792,1km²
Upstream area
792,1km²
Discharge
40,79m³/s
Mean elev.
728m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 775.3 km²97.7% of basin
- 13.6 km²1.7% of basin
- 4.4 km²0.6% of basin
10 intersecting protected areas
Tasmanian Wilderness
IUCN Not ApplicableWorld Heritage Site (natural or mixed)
622.63 km² overlap
National Park
619.46 km² overlap
Mount Murchison
IUCN VIRegional Reserve
58.51 km² overlap
Tyndall
IUCN VIRegional Reserve
39.76 km² overlap
Granite Tor
IUCN VIConservation Area
25.23 km² overlap
Lukes Knob
IUCN VIRegional Reserve
13.22 km² overlap
Mount Farrell
IUCN VIRegional Reserve
7.63 km² overlap
Lake Beatrice
IUCN VIConservation Area
5.71 km² overlap
Southwest
IUCN VIConservation Area
2.74 km² overlap
1 more protected areassorted by overlap area
Franklin-Gordon Wild Rivers
IUCN IINational Park
0.43 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
1 017 distinct species · 4 213 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 18 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 Murchison River : 14 espèces reliées par 15 interactions GloBI sur 2 types (connectance 9.8%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 4 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°
7,8°C
Annual rain
2 359mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,67
Runoff
1 445mm/an
PET
777mm
AET
767mm
Mean slope
14,5°
Water table
489cm
Forest
100%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
97%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)