HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #5080618840
Bassin de South Esk 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 : Break O'Day, Dorset, Northern Midlands
Sub-basin area
1 524,8km²
Upstream area
1 524,9km²
Discharge
15,3m³/s
Mean elev.
524m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 1281.2 km²83.9% of basin
- 189.6 km²12.4% of basin
- 56.2 km²3.7% of basin
30 intersecting protected areas
Castle Cary
IUCN VIRegional Reserve
60.02 km² overlap
Ben Lomond
IUCN IINational Park
50.56 km² overlap
St Pauls
IUCN VIRegional Reserve
22.28 km² overlap
Mount Victoria
IUCN IVRegional Reserve
17.39 km² overlap
Sawpit Ridge
IUCN IVRegional Reserve
16.96 km² overlap
Rostrevor #2
IUCN IVConservation Covenant
10.20 km² overlap
South Esk
IUCN IVRegional Reserve
9.19 km² overlap
Tullochgorum #1
IUCN IVConservation Covenant
8.64 km² overlap
Strathspey - Speyside
IUCN IVConservation Covenant
7.24 km² overlap
21 more protected areassorted by overlap area
Rostrevor #1
IUCN IVConservation Covenant
5.71 km² overlap
Dog Kennels
IUCN VIRegional Reserve
5.63 km² overlap
Nicholas Range
IUCN IVRegional Reserve
4.87 km² overlap
Tombstone Creek
IUCN IVRegional Reserve
4.86 km² overlap
Mathinna Falls
IUCN IVRegional Reserve
4.48 km² overlap
Pepper Hill
IUCN IVRegional Reserve
4.32 km² overlap
Break O'Day
IUCN IVRegional Reserve
3.31 km² overlap
Tullochgorum #2
IUCN IVConservation Covenant
3.28 km² overlap
Teds Flat
IUCN IVRegional Reserve
2.49 km² overlap
Joy Creek
IUCN IVRegional Reserve
2.33 km² overlap
Barway Spur
IUCN VIRegional Reserve
1.72 km² overlap
Killymoon
IUCN IVConservation Covenant
1.59 km² overlap
Calders Gully
IUCN IVConservation Covenant
1.19 km² overlap
South Esk River
IUCN VIConservation Area
0.88 km² overlap
Paradise Plains
IUCN IVRegional Reserve
0.84 km² overlap
Roses Tier #1
IUCN IVConservation Covenant
0.66 km² overlap
Fingal Rivulet
IUCN VConservation Area
0.58 km² overlap
St Patricks Head
IUCN IIState Reserve
0.57 km² overlap
Douglas-Apsley
IUCN IINational Park
0.56 km² overlap
Evercreech
IUCN VRegional Reserve
0.52 km² overlap
Cheeseberry Hill
IUCN VConservation Area
0.42 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
2 576 distinct species · 24 600 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 46 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 South Esk River : 39 espèces dont 3 patrimoniales (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 50 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 4.8%, 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°
9,9°C
Annual rain
985mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,07
Runoff
300mm/an
PET
881mm
AET
667mm
Mean slope
9,1°
Water table
408cm
Forest
88%
Crops
1%
Urban
0%
Protected
17%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)