HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1080099160
Bassin · #1080099160
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 : Babar, Ben Guecha, Ferkane, Hamraia, Stah Guentis
Sub-basin area
1 381,2km²
Upstream area
12 064,8km²
Discharge
1,33m³/s
Mean elev.
191m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin · #10801010301815 km²
- Bassin · #1080101040549 km²
5 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 1178.9 km²85.4% of basin
- 87.4 km²6.3% of basin
- Ben GuechaEl Oued · Algeria55.3 km²4.0% of basin
- 35.1 km²2.5% of basin
- 24.3 km²1.8% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Chott Melrhir
IUCN Not ReportedWetland of International Importance (Ramsar Site)
281.81 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
0 distinct species · 0 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°
20,1°C
Annual rain
143mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,90
Runoff
62mm/an
PET
1 515mm
AET
121mm
Mean slope
1,4°
Water table
420cm
Forest
0%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)