HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1080030980
Bassin de Oued El Kebir
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 10 administrative regions : Bordj Tahar, Bouraoui Belhadef, Boussif Ouled Askeur, Djemaa Beni Habibi, El Ancer +5
Sub-basin area
425km²
Upstream area
8 809,3km²
Discharge
46,2m³/s
Mean elev.
381m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
Outlet (drains to ocean / endorheic)
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Oued El Ghezzal475 km²
- Bassin de Oued El Kebir416 km²
10 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 112.7 km²26.5% of basin
- Bouraoui BelhadefJijel · Algeria60.1 km²14.1% of basin
- Ouled Yahia KhadroucheJijel · Algeria57.2 km²13.5% of basin
- Djemaa Beni HabibiJijel · Algeria43.9 km²10.3% of basin
- Boussif Ouled AskeurJijel · Algeria40.8 km²9.6% of basin
- 33.3 km²7.8% of basin
- Kheir Oued AdjoulJijel · Algeria33.2 km²7.8% of basin
- Bordj TaharJijel · Algeria29.8 km²7.0% of basin
2 moreFull L2 list
- Sidi Abdelaziz13.6 km² · 3.2%
- Ouled Rabah0.5 km² · 0.1%
1 intersecting protected areas
Réserve Naturelle du Lac de Béni-Bélaïd
IUCN Not ReportedWetland of International Importance (Ramsar Site)
11.47 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
149 distinct species · 355 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 45 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 Bassin de Oued El Kebir : 35 espèces reliées par 86 interactions GloBI sur 5 types (connectance 8.7%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 10 bulles taxonomiques (cascade genre/famille GloBI, ≥3 espèces).
Comparaison sur la connectance du réseau local complet vs distribution nationale (toutes les communes françaises).
Hydroclimate (BasinATLAS lev08)
Mean T°
16,2°C
Annual rain
1 046mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,03
Runoff
321mm/an
PET
1 082mm
AET
660mm
Mean slope
13,0°
Water table
587cm
Forest
100%
Crops
5%
Urban
12%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)