HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1080102010
Bassin · #1080102010
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 : Bir El Hammam, El Biod, Merhoum, Oued Taourira
Sub-basin area
1 036,4km²
Upstream area
20 617,3km²
Discharge
0,17m³/s
Mean elev.
1 086m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin · #10801012502051 km²
- Bassin · #10801013000 km²
4 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 556.3 km²53.7% of basin
- 372.5 km²36.0% of basin
- 107.0 km²10.3% of basin
- 0.4 km²0.0% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Chott ech Chergui
IUCN Not ReportedWetland of International Importance (Ramsar Site)
342.68 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
24 distinct species · 59 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
280mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,76
Runoff
7mm/an
PET
1 191mm
AET
242mm
Mean slope
0,5°
Water table
234cm
Forest
0%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)