HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1080134020
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 2 administrative regions : Beni Ounif, El Bnoud
Sub-basin area
1 711,9km²
Upstream area
7 900,5km²
Discharge
6,58m³/s
Mean elev.
774m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Oued Namous778 km²
- Bassin · #1080125240434 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 1509.5 km²88.2% of basin
- 201.1 km²11.8% 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°
20,0°C
Annual rain
109mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,93
Runoff
51mm/an
PET
1 606mm
AET
92mm
Mean slope
0,8°
Water table
513cm
Forest
0%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)