HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1080521670
Bassin de Elkhanaiga
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 : Tchighozerine
Sub-basin area
145,4km²
Upstream area
17 940,2km²
Discharge
4,84m³/s
Mean elev.
340m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 3 basins
- Bassin de I-n-Taguêdit2728 km²
- Bassin · #10805177702340 km²
- Bassin · #1080051140970 km²
1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 144.9 km²100.0% of basin
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°
28,9°C
Annual rain
115mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,95
Runoff
51mm/an
PET
2 151mm
AET
92mm
Mean slope
0,2°
Water table
97cm
Forest
0%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)