HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #5080620460
Bassin de Gordon 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 : Central Highlands, Derwent Valley
Sub-basin area
671,7km²
Upstream area
671,7km²
Discharge
24,51m³/s
Mean elev.
623m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 392.4 km²58.3% of basin
- 280.4 km²41.7% of basin
5 intersecting protected areas
Tasmanian Wilderness
IUCN Not ApplicableWorld Heritage Site (natural or mixed)
617.47 km² overlap
Franklin-Gordon Wild Rivers
IUCN IINational Park
602.48 km² overlap
Southwest
IUCN VIConservation Area
51.16 km² overlap
Clear Hill
IUCN VIRegional Reserve
14.18 km² overlap
Gordonvale
IUCN IVConservation Covenant
0.81 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
779 distinct species · 4 143 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 32 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 Gordon River : 26 espèces reliées par 30 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 6.0%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 6 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°
8,2°C
Annual rain
1 728mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
0,53
Runoff
1 153mm/an
PET
798mm
AET
756mm
Mean slope
10,4°
Water table
400cm
Forest
95%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
97%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)