HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1080396240
Bassin de 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 : Tamenghasset
Sub-basin area
1 782,7km²
Upstream area
1 782,7km²
Discharge
0,3m³/s
Mean elev.
815m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 1778.1 km²100.0% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Ahaggar
IUCN Not ApplicableCultural Park
1778.13 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
0 distinct species · 0 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
23mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,99
Runoff
12mm/an
PET
1 907mm
AET
16mm
Mean slope
1,7°
Water table
792cm
Forest
0%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
34%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)