HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1080048730
Bassin · #1080048730
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 4 administrative regions : El Biodh Sidi Cheikh, El Bnoud, Ksar Kaddour, Tinerkouk
Sub-basin area
1 649km²
Upstream area
1 649km²
Discharge
0,14m³/s
Mean elev.
545m
Administrative coverage
4 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 935.6 km²56.8% of basin
- El Biodh Sidi CheikhEl Bayadh · Algeria521.5 km²31.6% of basin
- Ksar KaddourAdrar · Algeria146.8 km²8.9% of basin
- 43.7 km²2.7% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Touat-Gourara-Tidikelt
IUCN Not ApplicableCultural Park
1117.45 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
2 distinct species · 5 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°
21,4°C
Annual rain
53mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,97
Runoff
4mm/an
PET
1 687mm
AET
45mm
Mean slope
1,8°
Water table
334cm
Forest
0%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)