HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1080145610
Bassin de Oued Ait Douchen
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 : Ouarzazate, Taroudannt
Sub-basin area
1 036,7km²
Upstream area
2 451,3km²
Discharge
3,08m³/s
Mean elev.
1 574m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Assif n'Tagdalt468 km²
- Bassin de Assif n'Oussersa356 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- Ouarzazate1035.4 km²100.0% of basin
- Taroudannt0.2 km²0.0% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Réserve de Biosphère des Oasis du Sud Marocain (RBOSM)
IUCN Not ApplicableUNESCO-MAB Biosphere Reserve
1035.64 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
356 distinct species · 1 951 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 26 species (selected proportionally per kingdom among those with at least one documented interaction here) to keep the graph readable. Hover for details, click to explore the full ecosystem of a species.
ℹ️ The territory contains many more species than displayed and all their documented interactions: the graph is intentionally the structural skeleton (top-N species by composite local score, edges filtered by Serrano 2009 disparity filter α=0.2).
Indicateurs du tissu écologique
Tissu écologique de Bassin de Oued Ait Douchen : 22 espèces reliées par 30 interactions GloBI sur 2 types (connectance 9.2%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 4 bulles taxonomiques (cascade genre/famille GloBI, ≥3 espèces).
Comparaison sur la connectance du réseau local complet vs distribution nationale (toutes les communes françaises).
Hydroclimate (BasinATLAS lev08)
Mean T°
15,9°C
Annual rain
326mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,79
Runoff
43mm/an
PET
1 588mm
AET
275mm
Mean slope
7,9°
Water table
867cm
Forest
0%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)