HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1080125180
Bassin de Oued Namous
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 : Beni Ounif, Djeniane Bourzeg, El Bnoud, Moghrar
Sub-basin area
778,4km²
Upstream area
5 754,5km²
Discharge
4,19m³/s
Mean elev.
838m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Oued Namous691 km²
- Bassin de Oued Namous295 km²
4 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 715.0 km²91.9% of basin
- 35.7 km²4.6% of basin
- 13.9 km²1.8% of basin
- 13.2 km²1.7% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Atlas Saharien
IUCN Not ApplicableCultural Park
13.04 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
2 distinct species · 2 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°
19,4°C
Annual rain
124mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,92
Runoff
46mm/an
PET
1 564mm
AET
104mm
Mean slope
1,2°
Water table
594cm
Forest
0%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)