HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1080047120
Bassin · #1080047120
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 7 administrative regions : Fenoughil, In Zghmir, Ouled Ahmed Temmi, Oum El Assel, Tabelbala +2
Sub-basin area
1 791,1km²
Upstream area
1 791,2km²
Discharge
0m³/s
Mean elev.
378m
Administrative coverage
7 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- Zaouiet KountaAdrar · Algeria570.4 km²31.9% of basin
- 536.7 km²30.0% of basin
- Oum El AsselTindouf · Algeria390.8 km²21.9% of basin
- 173.1 km²9.7% of basin
- Ouled Ahmed TemmiAdrar · Algeria86.0 km²4.8% of basin
- 24.1 km²1.3% of basin
- 7.1 km²0.4% of basin
2 intersecting protected areas
Touat-Gourara-Tidikelt
IUCN Not ApplicableCultural Park
1434.78 km² overlap
Tindouf
IUCN Not ApplicableCultural Park
348.47 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°
25,7°C
Annual rain
11mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,99
Runoff
1mm/an
PET
2 066mm
AET
4mm
Mean slope
1,4°
Water table
406cm
Forest
0%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)