HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #2080082340
Bassin de وادي الاحسبة
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 8 administrative regions : Al Ardiyat, Al Bahah, Al Makhwah, Al Qunfudhah, Baljurashi +3
Sub-basin area
1 339,9km²
Upstream area
1 340,1km²
Discharge
1,95m³/s
Mean elev.
694m
Administrative coverage
8 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- Al MakhwahAl Bahah · Saudi Arabia692.3 km²51.8% of basin
- 268.5 km²20.1% of basin
- 151.5 km²11.3% of basin
- BaljurashiAl Bahah · Saudi Arabia71.7 km²5.4% of basin
- 71.5 km²5.3% of basin
- Al BahahAl Bahah · Saudi Arabia64.6 km²4.8% of basin
- QilwahAl Bahah · Saudi Arabia13.8 km²1.0% of basin
- Bani HasanAl Bahah · Saudi Arabia1.8 km²0.1% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Jabal Shada al-A‘la
IUCN IIProtected Area
33.60 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
933 distinct species · 10 559 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 21 species (selected proportionally per kingdom among those with at least one documented interaction here) to keep the graph readable. Hover for details, click to explore the full ecosystem of a species.
ℹ️ The territory contains many more species than displayed and all their documented interactions: the graph is intentionally the structural skeleton (top-N species by composite local score, edges filtered by Serrano 2009 disparity filter α=0.2).
Indicateurs du tissu écologique
Tissu écologique de Bassin de وادي الاحسبة : 14 espèces dont 1 patrimoniale (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 23 interactions GloBI sur 3 types (connectance 11.0%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 7 bulles taxonomiques (cascade genre/famille GloBI, ≥3 espèces).
Comparaison sur la connectance du réseau local complet vs distribution nationale (toutes les communes françaises).
Hydroclimate (BasinATLAS lev08)
Mean T°
27,8°C
Annual rain
192mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,90
Runoff
39mm/an
PET
1 955mm
AET
159mm
Mean slope
13,4°
Water table
730cm
Forest
1%
Crops
0%
Urban
3%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)