HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1080788940
Bassin de El-Samaa
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 : Al Kurumik, Baw
Sub-basin area
271,7km²
Upstream area
1 698,8km²
Discharge
2,89m³/s
Mean elev.
503m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin · #1080786800263 km²
- Bassin · #108078668093 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 207.8 km²76.8% of basin
- 62.7 km²23.2% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
1 distinct species · 6 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°
27,9°C
Annual rain
730mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,64
Runoff
55mm/an
PET
2 031mm
AET
615mm
Mean slope
0,5°
Water table
74cm
Forest
0%
Crops
5%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)