HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1080099690
Bassin de Oued Itel
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 2 administrative regions : Oum Touyour, Still
Sub-basin area
103,4km²
Upstream area
4 806,2km²
Discharge
3,71m³/s
Mean elev.
40m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Oued Itel1036 km²
- Bassin de Oued Itel139 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- Oum TouyourEl Oued · Algeria65.8 km²63.7% of basin
- 37.5 km²36.3% of basin
2 intersecting protected areas
Chott Merouane et Oued Khrouf
IUCN Not ReportedWetland of International Importance (Ramsar Site)
8.86 km² overlap
Chott Melrhir
IUCN Not ReportedWetland of International Importance (Ramsar Site)
0.04 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
2 distinct species · 2 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°
22,0°C
Annual rain
100mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,94
Runoff
27mm/an
PET
1 594mm
AET
83mm
Mean slope
0,4°
Water table
264cm
Forest
0%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)