HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1080112420
Bassin · #1080112420
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 : Brezina, Sidi Ameur, Sidi Tifour, Tadjrouna
Sub-basin area
1 388,7km²
Upstream area
1 388,7km²
Discharge
4,16m³/s
Mean elev.
983m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
4 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 834.4 km²60.1% of basin
- Sidi TifourEl Bayadh · Algeria399.8 km²28.8% of basin
- 136.8 km²9.9% of basin
- Sidi AmeurEl Bayadh · Algeria17.1 km²1.2% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Atlas Saharien
IUCN Not ApplicableCultural Park
749.74 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
15 distinct species · 17 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°
16,5°C
Annual rain
173mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,87
Runoff
68mm/an
PET
1 378mm
AET
148mm
Mean slope
1,9°
Water table
889cm
Forest
0%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)