HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1080164080
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
491km²
Upstream area
491km²
Discharge
0,03m³/s
Mean elev.
513m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 269.8 km²55.0% of basin
- 185.1 km²37.7% of basin
- Ouled AissaAdrar · Algeria35.5 km²7.2% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Touat-Gourara-Tidikelt
IUCN Not ApplicableCultural Park
57.37 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
1 distinct species · 7 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°
22,5°C
Annual rain
49mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,97
Runoff
2mm/an
PET
1 780mm
AET
39mm
Mean slope
1,5°
Water table
261cm
Forest
0%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)