HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1080402980
Bassin · #1080402980
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 : Tin Zaouatine
Sub-basin area
498,1km²
Upstream area
498,1km²
Discharge
0,2m³/s
Mean elev.
597m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 496.8 km²100.0% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Ahaggar
IUCN Not ApplicableCultural Park
496.77 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°
26,4°C
Annual rain
32mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,98
Runoff
13mm/an
PET
2 014mm
AET
22mm
Mean slope
1,4°
Water table
678cm
Forest
0%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)