HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1080112320
Bassin de Oued El Melh
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 : Ain Madhi, Brezina, El Ghicha, Sidi Tifour, Tadjrouna
Sub-basin area
1 221,4km²
Upstream area
2 864km²
Discharge
2,08m³/s
Mean elev.
979m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Oued El Melh1077 km²
- Bassin de Oued El Melh566 km²
5 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 815.7 km²66.8% of basin
- 241.0 km²19.7% of basin
- Sidi TifourEl Bayadh · Algeria82.0 km²6.7% of basin
- 53.3 km²4.4% of basin
- 28.9 km²2.4% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Atlas Saharien
IUCN Not ApplicableCultural Park
714.05 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
24 distinct species · 28 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°
16,4°C
Annual rain
180mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,87
Runoff
58mm/an
PET
1 369mm
AET
154mm
Mean slope
2,0°
Water table
759cm
Forest
0%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)