HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1080101040
Bassin · #1080101040
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 4 administrative regions : Babar, Ben Guecha, Hamraia, Magrane
Sub-basin area
549,3km²
Upstream area
8 868,3km²
Discharge
6,44m³/s
Mean elev.
4m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin · #10801020401475 km²
- Bassin · #10801019801139 km²
4 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- Ben GuechaEl Oued · Algeria346.2 km²63.0% of basin
- 109.9 km²20.0% of basin
- 77.7 km²14.2% of basin
- 15.4 km²2.8% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Chott Melrhir
IUCN Not ReportedWetland of International Importance (Ramsar Site)
352.44 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°
21,5°C
Annual rain
97mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,94
Runoff
15mm/an
PET
1 578mm
AET
81mm
Mean slope
0,4°
Water table
131cm
Forest
0%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)