HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1080346180
Bassin de Oued Ziza
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 : Abalissa, Bordj Badji Mokhtar, In M'Guel
Sub-basin area
1 814km²
Upstream area
10 178,9km²
Discharge
1,58m³/s
Mean elev.
385m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Oued Ziza1113 km²
- Bassin de Oued Ziza284 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 1224.1 km²67.6% of basin
- 475.0 km²26.2% of basin
- Bordj Badji MokhtarAdrar · Algeria110.6 km²6.1% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Ahaggar
IUCN Not ApplicableCultural Park
1692.36 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
1 distinct species · 1 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°
27,6°C
Annual rain
20mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,99
Runoff
1mm/an
PET
2 040mm
AET
12mm
Mean slope
0,1°
Water table
52cm
Forest
0%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)