HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #2080075420
Bassin · #2080075420
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 : Al Gharbia
Sub-basin area
122,4km²
Upstream area
122,7km²
Discharge
0m³/s
Mean elev.
15m
Administrative coverage
1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- Al GharbiaAbu Dhabi · United Arab Emirates110.5 km²90.5% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Al Houbara Protected Area
IUCN IVProtected Area
25.98 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
2 distinct species · 3 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°
27,2°C
Annual rain
61mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,97
Runoff
6mm/an
PET
1 817mm
AET
48mm
Mean slope
0,5°
Water table
58cm
Forest
0%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
21%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)