HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1080098830
Bassin · #1080098830
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 5 administrative regions : Bougtoub, El Hassasna, El Kheither, Maamora, Sidi Ahmed
Sub-basin area
562,4km²
Upstream area
562,5km²
Discharge
0,13m³/s
Mean elev.
1 106m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
5 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 385.5 km²68.5% of basin
- 98.9 km²17.6% of basin
- El KheitherEl Bayadh · Algeria49.9 km²8.9% of basin
- 27.9 km²5.0% of basin
- 0.1 km²0.0% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Chott ech Chergui
IUCN Not ReportedWetland of International Importance (Ramsar Site)
113.66 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
8 distinct species · 10 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°
14,7°C
Annual rain
315mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,73
Runoff
10mm/an
PET
1 171mm
AET
271mm
Mean slope
0,9°
Water table
374cm
Forest
0%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)