HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1080397050
Bassin · #1080397050
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 2 administrative regions : Tamenghasset, Tazrouk
Sub-basin area
55,6km²
Upstream area
1 139,6km²
Discharge
0,28m³/s
Mean elev.
638m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin · #1080393700594 km²
- Bassin · #1080393710490 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 31.4 km²56.6% of basin
- 24.1 km²43.4% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Ahaggar
IUCN Not ApplicableCultural Park
55.50 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°
25,8°C
Annual rain
18mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,99
Runoff
8mm/an
PET
1 961mm
AET
11mm
Mean slope
0,8°
Water table
302cm
Forest
0%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)