HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1080030350
Bassin de Oued Mellah وادي المالح
A watershed (drainage basin) is not a body of water — it is the land area where rainfall converges towards a single river that eventually reaches the sea (or an endorheic basin). Boundaries follow ridgelines.
Crosses 2 administrative regions : Ouled Boudjemaa, Terga
Sub-basin area
18,4km²
Upstream area
898,5km²
Discharge
0,54m³/s
Mean elev.
48m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
Outlet (drains to ocean / endorheic)
▲ Receives from 3 basins
- Bassin de Oued Besbes2288 km²
- Bassin de Oued Senane172 km²
- Bassin de Oued Mellah165 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 14.6 km²79.4% of basin
- 3.7 km²20.3% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
3 distinct species · 11 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Not enough documented interactions to build a meaningful graph for this territory.
Hydroclimate (BasinATLAS lev08)
Mean T°
18,1°C
Annual rain
398mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,62
Runoff
20mm/an
PET
1 036mm
AET
344mm
Mean slope
2,4°
Water table
338cm
Forest
0%
Crops
67%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)