HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1080107940
Bassin · #1080107940
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 : Djamaa, M'Naguer, Ourmes, Sidi Amrane, Taibet
Sub-basin area
520,8km²
Upstream area
520,8km²
Discharge
0m³/s
Mean elev.
72m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
5 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 263.2 km²50.6% of basin
- 230.8 km²44.3% of basin
- 25.4 km²4.9% of basin
- 1.0 km²0.2% of basin
- Sidi AmraneEl Oued · Algeria0.2 km²0.0% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Chott Merouane et Oued Khrouf
IUCN Not ReportedWetland of International Importance (Ramsar Site)
42.97 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
4 distinct species · 4 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°
21,6°C
Annual rain
72mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,96
Runoff
3mm/an
PET
1 648mm
AET
58mm
Mean slope
0,3°
Water table
460cm
Forest
0%
Crops
1%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)