National Park · nzl
Paparoa National Park
- Area
- 433 km²
- IUCN cat.
- II
- Year
- 1987
Overview
- Designation
- National Park
- IUCN category
- II · Parc national
Écosystèmes préservés + récréation grand public
- Established
- 1987
- Managing authority
- Department of Conservation
Source : WDPA (UNEP-WCMC, World Database on Protected Areas).
Species present
735 distinct species · 4 254 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 43 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 Paparoa National Park : 39 espèces dont 1 patrimoniale (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 63 interactions GloBI sur 2 types (connectance 6.7%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 5 bulles taxonomiques (cascade genre/famille GloBI, ≥3 espèces).
Comparaison sur la connectance du réseau local complet vs distribution nationale (toutes les communes françaises).
Hydrology7 basins · 0 lakes · 23 rivers
Hydrology metrics for this exact territory
Stream length here
139,9km
Basins crossed
7
Max stream order
3
Max drainage
6 123km²
Discharge in basins
29,4m³/s
Mean precip.
2 980mm/an
Mean T°
10,5°C
Moisture idx
0,72
Max snow
25%
Mean runoff
1 886mm/an
Mean elev. (basins)
383m
Watersheds crossing here
- Bassin de Waitakere or Nile Riversub-area945,7 km²overlap319.26 km²74%
- Bassin de Ōtututu / Rough Riversub-area409,4 km²overlap43.70 km²10%
- Bassin de Inangahua Riversub-area1 157,2 km²overlap34.85 km²8%
- Bassin de Mawheraiti / Little Grey Riversub-area463,6 km²overlap32.53 km²8%
- Bassin de Buller Riversub-area213,1 km²overlap2.28 km²1%
- Bassin de Buller Riversub-area25,4 km²overlap0.38 km²0%
- Bassin de Moonlight Creeksub-area147,1 km²overlap0.27 km²0%
Rivers / streams (23, ord ≥ 4)
- Punakaiki Riverord 2len here24.85 km82%total30 km
- Fox Riverord 3len here19.27 km76%total25 km
- Bullock Creekord 2len here14.98 km71%total21 km
- Pike Streamord 2len here13.96 km99%total14 km
- Dilemma Creekord 2len here10.80 km86%total13 km
- Pororari Riverord 2len here9.26 km93%total10 km
- Cave Creek / Kotihotihoord 2len here7.72 km85%total9 km
- Inangahua Riverord 4len here7.28 km5%total133 km
- Cave Creek Northord 1len here7.03 km97%total7 km
- Tindale Creekord 1len here4.88 km100%total5 km
- Fossil Creekord 1len here4.58 km99%total5 km
- Waitakere or Nile Riverord 3len here4.52 km10%total47 km
11 more river segmentssorted by Strahler order + length
- Rough and Tumble Creekord 2len here2.23 km16%total14 km
- Four Mile Riverord 2len here2.14 km15%total14 km
- Mawheraiti / Little Grey Riverord 4len here2.06 km5%total41 km
- Awakari Riverord 2len here1.37 km7%total18 km
- Ōtututu / Rough Riverord 3len here1.09 km2%total56 km
- White Knight Streamord 1len here0.69 km101%total1 km
- Hibernia Creekord 1len here0.49 km45%total1 km
- Hibernia Creekord 1len here0.36 km25%total1 km
- Big Riverord 3len here0.30 km1%total55 km
- Waiwhero Creekord 2len here≈ tangenttotal6 km
- Te Wharau or Stony Riverord 2len here≈ tangenttotal13 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
- -42.00586, 171.44275
- Open in maps
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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.