HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1080164070
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 3 administrative regions : Kerzaz, Ouled Aissa, Timoudi
Sub-basin area
295,6km²
Upstream area
1 680,2km²
Discharge
0,15m³/s
Mean elev.
495m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Oued Namous437 km²
- Bassin · #1080158600390 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 290.0 km²98.2% of basin
- Ouled AissaAdrar · Algeria3.1 km²1.1% of basin
- 2.2 km²0.7% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Touat-Gourara-Tidikelt
IUCN Not ApplicableCultural Park
6.05 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
2 distinct species · 3 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
47mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,97
Runoff
2mm/an
PET
1 796mm
AET
35mm
Mean slope
1,4°
Water table
237cm
Forest
0%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)