HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1080200490
Bassin · #1080200490
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 4 administrative regions : Aougrout, In Ghar, In Salah, Tamekten
Sub-basin area
2 529,5km²
Upstream area
2 529,5km²
Discharge
0m³/s
Mean elev.
604m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
4 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 1544.9 km²61.2% of basin
- 366.6 km²14.5% of basin
- 324.6 km²12.9% of basin
- 289.7 km²11.5% of basin
2 intersecting protected areas
Touat-Gourara-Tidikelt
IUCN Not ApplicableCultural Park
624.28 km² overlap
Ahaggar
IUCN Not ApplicableCultural Park
167.17 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
10 distinct species · 15 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
27mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,99
Runoff
5mm/an
PET
1 847mm
AET
19mm
Mean slope
0,6°
Water table
1 213cm
Forest
0%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)