Heritage River · aus
Mitchell and Wonnangatta Rivers
- Area
- 133 km²
- IUCN cat.
- V
- Year
- 1992
Overview
- Designation
- Heritage River
- IUCN category
- V · Paysage protégé
Paysage façonné par l'humain digne de conservation
- Established
- 1992
- Managing authority
- AU-VIC_DEECA
Source : WDPA (UNEP-WCMC, World Database on Protected Areas).
Species present
1 396 distinct species · 8 244 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 33 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 Mitchell and Wonnangatta Rivers : 27 espèces dont 2 patrimoniales (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 38 interactions GloBI sur 2 types (connectance 7.2%, 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).
Hydrology10 basins · 0 lakes · 21 rivers
Hydrology metrics for this exact territory
Stream length here
133,6km
Basins crossed
10
Max stream order
5
Max drainage
4 652km²
Discharge in basins
8,2m³/s
Mean precip.
950mm/an
Mean T°
11,9°C
Moisture idx
-0,15
Max snow
12%
Mean runoff
248mm/an
Mean elev. (basins)
461m
Watersheds crossing here
- Bassin de Mitchell Riversub-area1 203,6 km²overlap57.60 km²43%
- Bassin de Wonnangatta Riversub-area594,6 km²overlap26.86 km²20%
- Bassin de Wonnangatta Riversub-area264,7 km²overlap19.45 km²15%
- Bassin de Mitchell Riversub-area125,4 km²overlap12.72 km²10%
- Bassin de Wonnangatta Riversub-area158,6 km²overlap10.06 km²8%
- Bassin de Tom Creeksub-area609,1 km²overlap3.59 km²3%
- Bassin de Wentworth Riversub-area501,9 km²overlap1.28 km²1%
- Bassin de Dargo Riversub-area722,3 km²overlap0.94 km²1%
- Bassin de Wongungarra Riversub-area730,1 km²overlap0.15 km²0%
1 more basinssorted by overlap
Rivers / streams (21, ord ≥ 4)
- Wonnangatta Riverord 5len here65.87 km63%total105 km
- Mitchell Riverord 5len here51.25 km36%total140 km
- Stony Creekord 5len here5.80 km28%total21 km
- Dry Riverord 2len here3.06 km23%total13 km
- Morris Creekord 3len here1.44 km6%total23 km
- Dargo Riverord 3len here1.39 km2%total81 km
- Zeka Creekord 1len here0.95 km12%total8 km
- Wattle Creekord 1len here0.85 km22%total4 km
- Wongungarra Riverord 4len here0.53 km1%total53 km
- Moroka Riverord 3len here0.47 km1%total42 km
- Baker Creek West Branchord 1len here0.32 km10%total3 km
- Moilun Creekord 2len here0.28 km2%total14 km
9 more river segmentssorted by Strahler order + length
- Humffray Riverord 3len here0.26 km2%total13 km
- Bull Creekord 1len here0.23 km5%total5 km
- Iguana Creekord 2len here0.22 km1%total16 km
- Boggy Creekord 5len here0.17 km1%total24 km
- Swamp Creekord 1len here0.17 km2%total8 km
- Watts Creekord 1len here0.16 km4%total4 km
- Castleburn Creekord 2len here0.13 km1%total14 km
- Conglomerate Creekord 1len here0.05 km0%total14 km
- Skull Creekord 1len here≈ tangenttotal6 km
Live spatial overlap (cached after first hit) · HydroBASINS lev08 × HydroLAKES × HydroRIVERS v10
Location
Fond cartographique : OpenFreeMap · © OpenStreetMap contributors · Géométrie : nos sources (GADM/HydroBASINS/HydroLAKES/HydroRIVERS/WDPA)
- Centroid
- -37.48824, 147.14288
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Species observed (Phase 2)
Listing species observed within this protected area requires the GBIF v2 partition × WDPA spatial overlay matview. Computing infrastructure pending.