HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1080106740
Bassin · #1080106740
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 3 administrative regions : El Mehara, Mecheria, Tousmouline
Sub-basin area
248,6km²
Upstream area
248,6km²
Discharge
0,03m³/s
Mean elev.
1 201m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- TousmoulineEl Bayadh · Algeria136.4 km²54.9% of basin
- 70.2 km²28.3% of basin
- 41.9 km²16.9% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Atlas Saharien
IUCN Not ApplicableCultural Park
248.50 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
1 distinct species · 1 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°
15,4°C
Annual rain
242mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,81
Runoff
9mm/an
PET
1 304mm
AET
207mm
Mean slope
0,3°
Water table
938cm
Forest
0%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)