HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1080040740
Bassin · #1080040740
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 1 administrative regions : Bir El Hammam
Sub-basin area
159,2km²
Upstream area
26 608,1km²
Discharge
1,96m³/s
Mean elev.
1 052m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
Outlet (drains to ocean / endorheic)
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin · #10801020101036 km²
- Bassin · #1080102150107 km²
1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 159.1 km²100.0% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Chott ech Chergui
IUCN Not ReportedWetland of International Importance (Ramsar Site)
46.11 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
1 distinct species · 1 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°
14,6°C
Annual rain
277mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,77
Runoff
8mm/an
PET
1 210mm
AET
238mm
Mean slope
0,2°
Water table
81cm
Forest
0%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)