HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1080100830
Bassin · #1080100830
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 : Faidh El Botma, M'Liliha, Messaad, Moudjebara, Selmana
Sub-basin area
720,3km²
Upstream area
720,3km²
Discharge
1,36m³/s
Mean elev.
1 089m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
5 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- Faidh El BotmaDjelfa · Algeria386.0 km²53.6% of basin
- MoudjebaraDjelfa · Algeria206.2 km²28.6% of basin
- 86.7 km²12.0% of basin
- 34.4 km²4.8% of basin
- 6.8 km²1.0% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Atlas Saharien
IUCN Not ApplicableCultural Park
720.14 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
3 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°
14,3°C
Annual rain
270mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,80
Runoff
56mm/an
PET
1 329mm
AET
231mm
Mean slope
2,6°
Water table
916cm
Forest
0%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)