National Park · nzl
Westland / Tai Poutini National Park
- Area
- 1 316 km²
- IUCN cat.
- II
- Year
- 1960
Overview
- Designation
- National Park
- IUCN category
- II · Parc national
Écosystèmes préservés + récréation grand public
- Established
- 1960
- Managing authority
- Department of Conservation
Source : WDPA (UNEP-WCMC, World Database on Protected Areas).
Species present
1 966 distinct species · 32 910 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 Westland / Tai Poutini National Park : 38 espèces reliées par 67 interactions GloBI sur 3 types (connectance 7.4%, 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).
Hydrology9 basins · 8 lakes · 60 rivers
Hydrology metrics for this exact territory
Stream length here
389,2km
Lake surface here
13,35km²
Basins crossed
9
Max stream order
4
Max drainage
1 432km²
Discharge in basins
90,7m³/s
Mean precip.
4 087mm/an
Mean T°
8,6°C
Moisture idx
0,80
Max snow
37%
Mean runoff
3 379mm/an
Mean elev. (basins)
740m
Watersheds crossing here
- Bassin de Waitangitaona Riversub-area1 013,1 km²overlap638.27 km²48%
- Bassin de Karangarua Riversub-area411,9 km²overlap353.65 km²27%
- Bassin de Cook River / Wehekasub-area381,7 km²overlap274.36 km²21%
- Bassin de Poerua Riversub-area279,7 km²overlap34.63 km²3%
- Bassin de Murchison Riversub-area1 431,7 km²overlap6.23 km²0%
- Bassin de Whataroa Riversub-area596,9 km²overlap5.11 km²0%
- Bassin de Landsborough Riversub-area1 343,5 km²overlap2.33 km²0%
- Bassin de Mahitahi Riversub-area1 333,7 km²overlap1.64 km²0%
- Bassin de Ōhinetamatea River / Saltwater Creeksub-area76,7 km²overlap0.10 km²0%
Lakes (8, top by area)
Rivers / streams (60, ord ≥ 4)
- Karangarua Riverord 4len here32.91 km56%total59 km
- Waikūkūpa Riverord 2len here26.20 km87%total30 km
- Cook River / Wehekaord 4len here26.13 km61%total43 km
- Callery Riverord 3len here25.43 km100%total25 km
- Ōmoeroa Riverord 2len here23.97 km91%total26 km
- Copland Riverord 3len here23.16 km100%total23 km
- Douglas Riverord 2len here14.79 km100%total15 km
- Fox Riverord 3len here14.64 km65%total22 km
- Waiho Riverord 4len here14.41 km40%total36 km
- Clearwater Riverord 2len here11.59 km43%total27 km
- Strauchon Riverord 2len here11.30 km100%total11 km
- Whelan Creekord 2len here11.21 km99%total11 km
48 more river segmentssorted by Strahler order + length
- Ōkārito Riverord 4len here10.47 km70%total15 km
- Balfour Riverord 2len here9.42 km100%total9 km
- Architect Creekord 2len here9.10 km100%total9 km
- Oroko Creekord 2len here8.95 km100%total9 km
- Regina Creekord 3len here8.09 km100%total8 km
- Troyte Riverord 1len here7.27 km100%total7 km
- Hinatua Riverord 3len here6.77 km57%total12 km
- Jacks Creekord 1len here6.50 km99%total7 km
- McKenna Creekord 2len here6.05 km100%total6 km
- Waitangitaona Riverord 3len here5.06 km13%total38 km
- Tatare Streamord 2len here4.69 km24%total19 km
- Ruera Riverord 2len here4.20 km100%total4 km
- Hauraki Creekord 2len here4.14 km100%total4 km
- Alf Creekord 3len here3.97 km100%total4 km
- Waihapi Creekord 1len here3.84 km100%total4 km
- Craig Creekord 2len here3.67 km100%total4 km
- Deep Creekord 1len here3.48 km98%total4 km
- Hinatua Riverord 1len here3.45 km71%total5 km
- McBain Creekord 2len here3.13 km100%total3 km
- Darkwater Sreamord 1len here3.10 km100%total3 km
- Totarakaitorea Riverord 1len here3.02 km100%total3 km
- MacDonalds Creekord 3len here2.85 km27%total11 km
- McPhee Creekord 3len here2.83 km100%total3 km
- Waihapi Creekord 1len here2.58 km100%total3 km
- Scott Creekord 3len here2.42 km100%total2 km
- Potters Creekord 1len here2.41 km16%total15 km
- Shiels Creekord 3len here2.23 km100%total2 km
- Waikowai Streamord 2len here2.13 km93%total2 km
- Vickers Creekord 1len here2.10 km100%total2 km
- deep streamord 2len here2.05 km60%total3 km
- Bullock Creekord 4len here2.03 km9%total22 km
- Ribbonwood Creekord 1len here1.84 km42%total4 km
- Tekano Creekord 1len here1.55 km100%total2 km
- Zalas Creekord 3len here1.38 km71%total2 km
- Waikowai Streamord 1len here1.35 km68%total2 km
- Foam Creekord 3len here1.14 km100%total1 km
- Kōmarupeka Creekord 3len here1.03 km100%total1 km
- Lyttles Creekord 1len here0.84 km100%total1 km
- Palaver Creekord 1len here0.69 km101%total1 km
- Matainui Creekord 3len here0.61 km3%total19 km
- Tui Creekord 1len here0.50 km101%total1 km
- Bullock Creekord 1len here0.38 km74%total1 km
- Stony Creekord 1len here0.12 km6%total2 km
- Rough Creekord 1len here0.01 km0%total6 km
- Waitangitāhuna Riverord 3len here≈ tangenttotal29 km
- Docherty Creekord 3len here≈ tangenttotal22 km
- Border Creekord 1len here≈ tangenttotal6 km
- Poerua Riverord 4len here≈ tangenttotal52 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
- -43.56791, 170.04272
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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.