HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #8080211920
Bassin de Thelon 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 1 administrative regions : Fort Smith
Sub-basin area
105,7km²
Upstream area
8 978,7km²
Discharge
39,16m³/s
Mean elev.
186m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Radford River1335 km²
- Bassin de Hanbury River775 km²
1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- Fort Smith106.4 km²100.0% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Thelon Wildlife Sanctuary
IUCN IbWildlife Sanctuary
106.39 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
0 distinct species · 0 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Not enough documented interactions to build a meaningful graph for this territory.
Hydroclimate (BasinATLAS lev08)
Mean T°
-10,1°C
Annual rain
241mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,32
Runoff
150mm/an
PET
352mm
AET
224mm
Mean slope
1,2°
Water table
70cm
Forest
0%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
100%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)