HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1080090060
Bassin · #1080090060
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 3 administrative regions : M'Cif, Ouled Madhi, Soumaa
Sub-basin area
35km²
Upstream area
2 636,6km²
Discharge
6,62m³/s
Mean elev.
392m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Oued Legsob1248 km²
- Bassin de وادي غزلية412 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- SoumaaM'Sila · Algeria19.8 km²56.7% of basin
- Ouled MadhiM'Sila · Algeria9.8 km²28.0% of basin
- 5.4 km²15.3% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Chott el Hodna
IUCN Not ReportedWetland of International Importance (Ramsar Site)
34.97 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
0 distinct species · 0 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°
17,0°C
Annual rain
200mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,84
Runoff
46mm/an
PET
1 279mm
AET
172mm
Mean slope
0,1°
Water table
19cm
Forest
0%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)