HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1080247220
Bassin de Oued Igharghar
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 1 administrative regions : Idles
Sub-basin area
2 684,8km²
Upstream area
56 782,4km²
Discharge
55,99m³/s
Mean elev.
805m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Oued Taremert-n-Akli693 km²
- Bassin de Oued Tedjert15 km²
1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 2679.9 km²100.0% of basin
4 intersecting protected areas
Ahaggar
IUCN Not ApplicableCultural Park
1418.28 km² overlap
Tassili N'Ajjer
IUCN Not ApplicableCultural Park
934.76 km² overlap
Tassili N'Ajjer
IUCN Not ApplicableUNESCO-MAB Biosphere Reserve
785.59 km² overlap
Tassili n'Ajjer
IUCN Not ApplicableWorld Heritage Site (natural or mixed)
782.11 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
29 distinct species · 39 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°
23,1°C
Annual rain
24mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,99
Runoff
4mm/an
PET
1 874mm
AET
17mm
Mean slope
4,3°
Water table
727cm
Forest
0%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
29%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)