HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1080473550
Bassin · #1080473550
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 across 2 countries : Arlit, In Guezzam, Tchighozerine
Sub-basin area
632,4km²
Upstream area
7 162,7km²
Discharge
1,22m³/s
Mean elev.
397m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin · #10804684702496 km²
- Bassin · #10804685701575 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 595.4 km²94.4% of basin
- 25.4 km²4.0% of basin
- 9.6 km²1.5% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Ahaggar
IUCN Not ApplicableCultural Park
8.94 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
11 distinct species · 11 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°
28,0°C
Annual rain
44mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,98
Runoff
4mm/an
PET
2 106mm
AET
32mm
Mean slope
0,1°
Water table
165cm
Forest
0%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)