HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1080132920
Bassin · #1080132920
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 2 administrative regions : Ain Beida, Hassi Messaoud
Sub-basin area
803,4km²
Upstream area
2 872,8km²
Discharge
0,15m³/s
Mean elev.
166m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin · #1080139430405 km²
- Bassin · #1080139350367 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- Hassi MessaoudOuargla · Algeria788.6 km²98.2% of basin
- 14.1 km²1.8% of basin
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°
22,7°C
Annual rain
36mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,98
Runoff
2mm/an
PET
1 788mm
AET
27mm
Mean slope
1,2°
Water table
148cm
Forest
0%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)