HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1080217650
Bassin · #1080217650
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 5 administrative regions : Fenoughil, Tamantit, Tamekten, Tamest, Zaouiet Kounta
Sub-basin area
1 758,6km²
Upstream area
2 419,6km²
Discharge
0m³/s
Mean elev.
310m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin · #1080222870333 km²
- Bassin · #1080222750328 km²
5 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 862.0 km²49.1% of basin
- 528.2 km²30.1% of basin
- 330.9 km²18.8% of basin
- Zaouiet KountaAdrar · Algeria18.0 km²1.0% of basin
- 16.7 km²1.0% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Touat-Gourara-Tidikelt
IUCN Not ApplicableCultural Park
1755.79 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
13 distinct species · 17 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°
24,7°C
Annual rain
11mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,99
Runoff
1mm/an
PET
1 957mm
AET
6mm
Mean slope
0,1°
Water table
666cm
Forest
0%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)