HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1080049710
Bassin · #1080049710
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 2 administrative regions : Abalissa, Bordj Badji Mokhtar
Sub-basin area
2 394,1km²
Upstream area
2 394,1km²
Discharge
0,23m³/s
Mean elev.
392m
Administrative coverage
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- Bordj Badji MokhtarAdrar · Algeria2358.6 km²98.8% of basin
- 29.3 km²1.2% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Ahaggar
IUCN Not ApplicableCultural Park
29.47 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
18 distinct species · 55 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°
28,2°C
Annual rain
29mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,99
Runoff
7mm/an
PET
2 096mm
AET
20mm
Mean slope
0,2°
Water table
260cm
Forest
0%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)