HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1080655170
Bassin de Wadi Shaqq esh Shau
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 : Mellit, Um Kadada
Sub-basin area
165,1km²
Upstream area
19 785km²
Discharge
40,58m³/s
Mean elev.
704m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin · #10806542002463 km²
- Bassin de Wadi Shaqq esh Shau594 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 162.6 km²98.8% of basin
- 1.9 km²1.2% 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°
26,2°C
Annual rain
237mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,89
Runoff
28mm/an
PET
2 127mm
AET
196mm
Mean slope
0,4°
Water table
665cm
Forest
0%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)