Stewardship Area · nzl
Wanganui / Otira Catchments
- Area
- 901 km²
- IUCN cat.
- III
- Year
- 1987
Overview
- Designation
- Stewardship Area
- IUCN category
- III · Monument naturel
Caractéristique naturelle spécifique protégée
- Established
- 1987
- Managing authority
- Department of Conservation
Source : WDPA (UNEP-WCMC, World Database on Protected Areas).
Species present
996 distinct species · 61 831 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 31 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 Wanganui / Otira Catchments : 27 espèces reliées par 46 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 9.9%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 4 bulles taxonomiques (cascade genre/famille GloBI, ≥3 espèces).
Comparaison sur la connectance du réseau local complet vs distribution nationale (toutes les communes françaises).
Hydrology8 basins · 1 lakes · 47 rivers
Hydrology metrics for this exact territory
Stream length here
310,5km
Lake surface here
0,00km²
Basins crossed
8
Max stream order
4
Max drainage
1 619km²
Discharge in basins
52,5m³/s
Mean precip.
3 472mm/an
Mean T°
9,0°C
Moisture idx
0,77
Max snow
43%
Mean runoff
2 500mm/an
Mean elev. (basins)
639m
Watersheds crossing here
- Bassin de Hokitika Riversub-area1 067,4 km²overlap579.34 km²64%
- Bassin de Taramakau Riversub-area1 619,3 km²overlap244.10 km²27%
- Bassin de Waitaha Riversub-area834 km²overlap67.40 km²7%
- Bassin de Mathias Riversub-area302,6 km²overlap3.59 km²0%
- Bassin de Wanganui Riversub-area527,3 km²overlap2.77 km²0%
- Bassin de Wilberforce Riversub-area1 042,6 km²overlap2.33 km²0%
- Bassin de Rakaia Riversub-area281,3 km²overlap0.82 km²0%
- Bassin de Waimakariri Riversub-area674,2 km²overlap0.63 km²0%
Lakes (1, top by area)
Rivers / streams (47, ord ≥ 4)
- Whitcombe Riverord 3len here34.95 km99%total35 km
- Kokatahi Riverord 4len here25.19 km50%total50 km
- Hokitika Riverord 5len here24.48 km28%total87 km
- Toaroha Riverord 4len here23.60 km85%total28 km
- Taipo Riverord 4len here18.50 km76%total24 km
- Styx Riverord 2len here14.92 km77%total19 km
- Hunts Creekord 3len here12.30 km100%total12 km
- Crawford Creekord 2len here11.25 km100%total11 km
- Mungo Riverord 3len here11.10 km100%total11 km
- Price Riverord 2len here8.49 km100%total8 km
- Cropp Riverord 2len here8.03 km100%total8 km
- Big Wainihinihi Riverord 2len here7.86 km66%total12 km
35 more river segmentssorted by Strahler order + length
- Scottys Creekord 3len here7.02 km100%total7 km
- Read Creekord 2len here5.97 km70%total8 km
- Gold Creekord 1len here5.56 km100%total6 km
- Griffin Creekord 4len here5.25 km45%total12 km
- Sir Robert Creekord 2len here5.18 km100%total5 km
- Vincent Creekord 3len here5.15 km100%total5 km
- Cataract Creekord 3len here5.08 km100%total5 km
- Frew Creekord 2len here4.80 km100%total5 km
- Dunns Creekord 2len here4.51 km100%total5 km
- Seddon Creekord 2len here4.36 km95%total5 km
- Seven Mile Streamord 1len here4.24 km92%total5 km
- Hanging Streamord 1len here4.18 km100%total4 km
- Stag Creekord 2len here4.12 km100%total4 km
- Rocky Creekord 1len here3.66 km99%total4 km
- Mary Creekord 1len here3.63 km100%total4 km
- Tumbledown Creekord 1len here3.49 km100%total3 km
- Brunswick Creekord 1len here3.39 km100%total3 km
- Canyon Creekord 1len here3.13 km100%total3 km
- Julia Creekord 2len here2.89 km100%total3 km
- Noisy Creekord 1len here2.81 km100%total3 km
- Haricot Creekord 3len here2.61 km100%total3 km
- Wren Creekord 2len here2.29 km100%total2 km
- Wilkinson Riverord 2len here2.03 km81%total3 km
- Tyndall Creekord 1len here1.96 km100%total2 km
- One Mile Streamord 1len here1.88 km100%total2 km
- Lynch Creekord 1len here1.78 km101%total2 km
- Park Streamord 2len here1.73 km100%total2 km
- Dry Streamord 1len here1.65 km100%total2 km
- Dexter Creekord 1len here1.43 km100%total1 km
- Adamson Creekord 1len here1.27 km100%total1 km
- Lowes Creekord 1len here0.86 km100%total1 km
- Tuke Riverord 2len here0.80 km7%total11 km
- Grimmond Creekord 1len here0.67 km13%total5 km
- Taramakau Riverord 4len here0.31 km0%total132 km
- Wanganui Riverord 4len here0.11 km0%total83 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
- -43.04235, 171.14549
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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.