HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1080098420
Bassin · #1080098420
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 7 administrative regions : Babar, Djellal, El Feidh, Hamraia, Khenguet Sidi Nadji +2
Sub-basin area
680,9km²
Upstream area
680,9km²
Discharge
0,54m³/s
Mean elev.
204m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
7 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 281.2 km²41.3% of basin
- 223.4 km²32.8% of basin
- 112.8 km²16.6% of basin
- Zeribet El OuedBiskra · Algeria32.1 km²4.7% of basin
- Khenguet Sidi NadjiBiskra · Algeria27.7 km²4.1% of basin
- 3.2 km²0.5% of basin
- 0.4 km²0.1% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Chott Melrhir
IUCN Not ReportedWetland of International Importance (Ramsar Site)
152.88 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
1 distinct species · 1 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°
20,0°C
Annual rain
155mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,89
Runoff
65mm/an
PET
1 500mm
AET
131mm
Mean slope
2,1°
Water table
521cm
Forest
0%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)