HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1080096640
Bassin · #1080096640
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 Kermes, Chehaima, Frenda, Medrissa, Sidi Abderrahmane +1
Sub-basin area
859km²
Upstream area
859,1km²
Discharge
0,49m³/s
Mean elev.
1 063m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
6 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- Sidi AbderrahmaneTiaret · Algeria432.8 km²50.4% of basin
- 232.6 km²27.1% of basin
- 140.9 km²16.4% of basin
- Ain KermesTiaret · Algeria48.0 km²5.6% of basin
- 4.3 km²0.5% of basin
- 0.3 km²0.0% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Chott ech Chergui
IUCN Not ReportedWetland of International Importance (Ramsar Site)
387.42 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
12 distinct species · 21 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°
14,4°C
Annual rain
347mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,70
Runoff
18mm/an
PET
1 149mm
AET
298mm
Mean slope
0,9°
Water table
275cm
Forest
0%
Crops
2%
Urban
1%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)