HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #8080219080
Bassin de Clarke 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
16,4km²
Upstream area
1 470,6km²
Discharge
8,03m³/s
Mean elev.
311m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin · #8080219590745 km²
- Bassin de Clarke River709 km²
1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- Fort Smith16.5 km²100.0% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Thelon Wildlife Sanctuary
IUCN IbWildlife Sanctuary
8.55 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
18 distinct species · 28 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 9 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 Clarke River : 8 espèces reliées par 6 interactions GloBI sur 2 types (connectance 16.7%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 1 bulle taxonomique (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°
-10,7°C
Annual rain
253mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,25
Runoff
172mm/an
PET
338mm
AET
230mm
Mean slope
3,1°
Water table
94cm
Forest
0%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
52%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)