HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1080084380
Bassin de Cherf
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 13 administrative regions : Ain Larbi, Ain Makhlouf, Ain Sandel, Ain Soltane, Belkheir +8
Sub-basin area
520,4km²
Upstream area
2 916,5km²
Discharge
5,87m³/s
Mean elev.
799m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin · #1080085650529 km²
- Bassin · #1080085610141 km²
13 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 130.9 km²25.2% of basin
- Ain MakhloufGuelma · Algeria125.8 km²24.2% of basin
- Selaoua AnnounaGuelma · Algeria95.5 km²18.4% of basin
- Ain SoltaneSouk Ahras · Algeria81.1 km²15.6% of basin
- Ben DjerrahGuelma · Algeria40.3 km²7.7% of basin
- Houari BoumedieneGuelma · Algeria22.0 km²4.2% of basin
- Ain SandelGuelma · Algeria13.2 km²2.5% of basin
- Oued ZenatiGuelma · Algeria3.7 km²0.7% of basin
5 moreFull L2 list
- Sedrata3.7 km² · 0.7%
- Ras El Agba3.4 km² · 0.7%
- Zouabi0.5 km² · 0.1%
- Medjaz Ammar0.3 km² · 0.1%
- Belkheir0.1 km² · 0.0%
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
27 distinct species · 46 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°
14,1°C
Annual rain
604mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,51
Runoff
108mm/an
PET
1 233mm
AET
510mm
Mean slope
8,9°
Water table
465cm
Forest
6%
Crops
90%
Urban
1%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)