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Drainage Basins



Australasia Basins Map



The drainage basins distributed with the HYDRO1k data set are derived using the vector stream networks along with the flow direction data set. Each polygon in the basin data set has been tagged with a Pfafstetter code uniquely identifying each sub-basin. A detailed description of the coding scheme can be found in Verdin. Additional attributes defining the characteristics of each sub-basin have been developed.These are described in the Readme file. These data are available in an ARC/INFO export format and coming shapefile format.





Download HYDRO1k Basins data set for Australasia as a tar file in ARC/INFO format (2.0 MB)
Download HYDRO1k Basins data set for Australasia as a tar file in shapefile format (7.9 MB)
Download entire HYDRO1k data set for Australasia as a tar file (31.7 MB)

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