HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1080056440
Bassin de Oued el Mellah
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 11 administrative regions : Ain Lahdjar, Bazer-Sakra, Bellaa, Bir Haddada, Bir-El-Arch +6
Sub-basin area
527,4km²
Upstream area
527,4km²
Discharge
1,65m³/s
Mean elev.
991m
Administrative coverage
11 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 146.7 km²27.8% of basin
- 74.0 km²14.0% of basin
- 67.9 km²12.9% of basin
- 56.6 km²10.7% of basin
- 54.0 km²10.2% of basin
- 38.6 km²7.3% of basin
- 37.1 km²7.0% of basin
- 23.6 km²4.5% of basin
3 moreFull L2 list
- Bir-El-Arch18.2 km² · 3.4%
- Bellaa9.2 km² · 1.7%
- Telaa1.6 km² · 0.3%
1 intersecting protected areas
Sebkha de Bazer
IUCN Not ReportedWetland of International Importance (Ramsar Site)
43.44 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
100 distinct species · 512 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 27 species (selected proportionally per kingdom among those with at least one documented interaction here) to keep the graph readable. Hover for details, click to explore the full ecosystem of a species.
ℹ️ The territory contains many more species than displayed and all their documented interactions: the graph is intentionally the structural skeleton (top-N species by composite local score, edges filtered by Serrano 2009 disparity filter α=0.2).
Indicateurs du tissu écologique
Tissu écologique de Bassin de Oued el Mellah : 24 espèces reliées par 27 interactions GloBI sur 3 types (connectance 7.7%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 3 bulles taxonomiques (cascade genre/famille GloBI, ≥3 espèces).
Comparaison sur la connectance du réseau local complet vs distribution nationale (toutes les communes françaises).
Hydroclimate (BasinATLAS lev08)
Mean T°
13,3°C
Annual rain
467mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,60
Runoff
101mm/an
PET
1 174mm
AET
398mm
Mean slope
1,9°
Water table
202cm
Forest
0%
Crops
22%
Urban
19%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)