HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1080412540
Bassin · #1080412540
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
299,3km²
Upstream area
7 704,9km²
Discharge
3,54m³/s
Mean elev.
556m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin · #10804188901763 km²
- Bassin · #1080419160473 km²
1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 298.4 km²100.0% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Ahaggar
IUCN Not ApplicableCultural Park
298.43 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°
26,8°C
Annual rain
38mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,98
Runoff
17mm/an
PET
2 039mm
AET
27mm
Mean slope
0,7°
Water table
140cm
Forest
0%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)