HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1080100400
Bassin · #1080100400
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 3 administrative regions : Besbes, Oum Touyour, Sidi Khaled
Sub-basin area
556,9km²
Upstream area
556,9km²
Discharge
0,52m³/s
Mean elev.
249m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- BesbesBiskra · Algeria363.4 km²65.3% of basin
- Oum TouyourEl Oued · Algeria193.4 km²34.7% of basin
- Sidi KhaledBiskra · Algeria0.0 km²0.0% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Atlas Saharien
IUCN Not ApplicableCultural Park
167.81 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°
20,4°C
Annual rain
122mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,92
Runoff
36mm/an
PET
1 543mm
AET
102mm
Mean slope
0,4°
Water table
626cm
Forest
0%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)