HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1080087980
Bassin de Oued el Ham
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 : Bouti Sayeh, Sidi Aissa
Sub-basin area
238,9km²
Upstream area
2 078,2km²
Discharge
5,56m³/s
Mean elev.
625m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin · #10800878501075 km²
- Bassin · #1080087810765 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- Bouti SayehM'Sila · Algeria209.0 km²87.5% of basin
- Sidi AissaM'Sila · Algeria29.9 km²12.5% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Atlas Saharien
IUCN Not ApplicableCultural Park
217.81 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
4 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°
15,9°C
Annual rain
290mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,76
Runoff
77mm/an
PET
1 230mm
AET
248mm
Mean slope
1,0°
Water table
183cm
Forest
0%
Crops
0%
Urban
1%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)