HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1080101980
Bassin · #1080101980
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, Hassi Khalifa, Taleb Larbi
Sub-basin area
1 138,6km²
Upstream area
6 844,6km²
Discharge
10,88m³/s
Mean elev.
28m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin · #10801019501335 km²
- Bassin · #1080101840470 km²
5 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- Ben GuechaEl Oued · Algeria556.5 km²48.9% of basin
- Hassi KhalifaEl Oued · Algeria423.5 km²37.2% of basin
- Taleb LarbiEl Oued · Algeria71.4 km²6.3% of basin
- 55.4 km²4.9% of basin
- 31.6 km²2.8% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Chott Melrhir
IUCN Not ReportedWetland of International Importance (Ramsar Site)
64.38 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
4 distinct species · 5 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°
21,5°C
Annual rain
91mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,94
Runoff
12mm/an
PET
1 585mm
AET
76mm
Mean slope
0,4°
Water table
157cm
Forest
0%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)