HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1080090280
Bassin · #1080090280
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 4 administrative regions : Azil Abdelkader (Metkouak), M'Cif, Soumaa, Zarzour
Sub-basin area
220,6km²
Upstream area
19 590,8km²
Discharge
34,89m³/s
Mean elev.
434m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin · #108009013039 km²
- Bassin de وادي بالول1 km²
4 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 114.8 km²52.0% of basin
- 52.9 km²24.0% of basin
- SoumaaM'Sila · Algeria50.0 km²22.7% of basin
- 2.9 km²1.3% of basin
2 intersecting protected areas
Chott el Hodna
IUCN Not ReportedWetland of International Importance (Ramsar Site)
162.44 km² overlap
Atlas Saharien
IUCN Not ApplicableCultural Park
76.09 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
3 distinct species · 3 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°
17,2°C
Annual rain
195mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,85
Runoff
39mm/an
PET
1 314mm
AET
168mm
Mean slope
1,1°
Water table
265cm
Forest
0%
Crops
0%
Urban
1%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)