HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1080105100
Bassin de Oued Mesaad
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 8 administrative regions : Ain Madhi, El Ghicha, El Haouaita, Kheneg, Laghouat +3
Sub-basin area
1 891,7km²
Upstream area
1 891,8km²
Discharge
3,83m³/s
Mean elev.
870m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
8 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 732.2 km²38.7% of basin
- El HaouaitaLaghouat · Algeria600.8 km²31.8% of basin
- 361.1 km²19.1% of basin
- 93.0 km²4.9% of basin
- 75.9 km²4.0% of basin
- 20.4 km²1.1% of basin
- 7.2 km²0.4% of basin
- 0.5 km²0.0% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Atlas Saharien
IUCN Not ApplicableCultural Park
1754.79 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
89 distinct species · 132 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 25 species (selected proportionally per kingdom among those with at least one documented interaction here) to keep the graph readable. Hover for details, click to explore the full ecosystem of a species.
ℹ️ The territory contains many more species than displayed and all their documented interactions: the graph is intentionally the structural skeleton (top-N species by composite local score, edges filtered by Serrano 2009 disparity filter α=0.2).
Indicateurs du tissu écologique
Tissu écologique de Bassin de Oued Mesaad : 22 espèces dont 1 patrimoniale (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 25 interactions GloBI sur 3 types (connectance 7.1%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 5 bulles taxonomiques (cascade genre/famille GloBI, ≥3 espèces).
Comparaison sur la connectance du réseau local complet vs distribution nationale (toutes les communes françaises).
Hydroclimate (BasinATLAS lev08)
Mean T°
17,0°C
Annual rain
168mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,88
Runoff
60mm/an
PET
1 401mm
AET
144mm
Mean slope
1,1°
Water table
505cm
Forest
0%
Crops
0%
Urban
2%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)