HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1080088310
Bassin · #1080088310
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 5 administrative regions : Ain Zitoun, Baghai, El Mahmal, Ensigha, M'Toussa
Sub-basin area
217,9km²
Upstream area
218km²
Discharge
0m³/s
Mean elev.
934m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
5 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 100.2 km²46.0% of basin
- Ain ZitounOum el Bouaghi · Algeria50.6 km²23.2% of basin
- 45.1 km²20.7% of basin
- 17.7 km²8.1% of basin
- 4.3 km²2.0% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Garaet El Taref
IUCN Not ReportedWetland of International Importance (Ramsar Site)
46.04 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
2 distinct species · 26 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°
13,8°C
Annual rain
400mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,68
Runoff
23mm/an
PET
1 256mm
AET
342mm
Mean slope
1,9°
Water table
213cm
Forest
0%
Crops
13%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)