HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1080133340
Bassin · #1080133340
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 3 administrative regions : Brezina, El Meniaa, Sidi Ameur
Sub-basin area
2 595,7km²
Upstream area
6 324,1km²
Discharge
10,9m³/s
Mean elev.
777m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin · #10801112502651 km²
- Bassin · #10801111801078 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 2424.4 km²93.5% of basin
- 143.8 km²5.5% of basin
- Sidi AmeurEl Bayadh · Algeria26.0 km²1.0% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Atlas Saharien
IUCN Not ApplicableCultural Park
428.49 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
19 distinct species · 30 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°
18,6°C
Annual rain
116mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,92
Runoff
60mm/an
PET
1 488mm
AET
98mm
Mean slope
0,9°
Water table
460cm
Forest
0%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)