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
Graphe en cours d’indexation
Calcul du tissu écologique de cette entité.
Le graphe apparaîtra automatiquement dès que le calcul est terminé (rafraîchissement toutes les 2s).
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)