HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1080045170
Bassin · #1080045170
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 3 administrative regions : El Biodh Sidi Cheikh, El Bnoud, Ksar Kaddour
Sub-basin area
2 669,1km²
Upstream area
2 669,1km²
Discharge
3,52m³/s
Mean elev.
677m
Administrative coverage
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 2387.7 km²89.5% of basin
- El Biodh Sidi CheikhEl Bayadh · Algeria273.1 km²10.2% of basin
- Ksar KaddourAdrar · Algeria6.2 km²0.2% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Touat-Gourara-Tidikelt
IUCN Not ApplicableCultural Park
8.56 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
3 distinct species · 4 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°
20,4°C
Annual rain
79mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,95
Runoff
42mm/an
PET
1 619mm
AET
65mm
Mean slope
0,6°
Water table
686cm
Forest
0%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)