HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1080098860
Bassin · #1080098860
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 Sekhouna, Bougtoub, El Hassasna, El Kheither, Maamora +1
Sub-basin area
916,3km²
Upstream area
6 166,2km²
Discharge
0m³/s
Mean elev.
1 074m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin · #10800978201190 km²
- Bassin · #1080097760235 km²
6 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 682.0 km²74.4% of basin
- 166.9 km²18.2% of basin
- 57.0 km²6.2% of basin
- 5.4 km²0.6% of basin
- 4.5 km²0.5% of basin
- El KheitherEl Bayadh · Algeria0.2 km²0.0% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Chott ech Chergui
IUCN Not ReportedWetland of International Importance (Ramsar Site)
373.04 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
2 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°
14,9°C
Annual rain
317mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,73
Runoff
16mm/an
PET
1 175mm
AET
273mm
Mean slope
0,8°
Water table
321cm
Forest
0%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)