HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1080094250
Bassin · #1080094250
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 6 administrative regions : Ain El Melh, Bir Foda, Djebel Messaad, Mohamed Boudiaf, Sidi M'Hamed +1
Sub-basin area
488,7km²
Upstream area
488,8km²
Discharge
0,1m³/s
Mean elev.
1 079m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
6 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- Djebel MessaadM'Sila · Algeria262.9 km²53.8% of basin
- Ain El MelhM'Sila · Algeria78.6 km²16.1% of basin
- 66.7 km²13.6% of basin
- 45.2 km²9.3% of basin
- Sidi M'HamedM'Sila · Algeria35.2 km²7.2% of basin
- Mohamed BoudiafM'Sila · Algeria0.1 km²0.0% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Atlas Saharien
IUCN Not ApplicableCultural Park
488.67 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
13 distinct species · 18 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
274mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,78
Runoff
15mm/an
PET
1 270mm
AET
236mm
Mean slope
3,4°
Water table
783cm
Forest
0%
Crops
0%
Urban
2%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)