HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #2080087290
Bassin de شعيب أبو جراد
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 : Hafar Al Batin
Sub-basin area
259,7km²
Upstream area
3 101,9km²
Discharge
0,69m³/s
Mean elev.
383m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
Outlet (drains to ocean / endorheic)
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de شعيب أبو زرايب458 km²
- Bassin de الفاو الجنوبي112 km²
1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 259.3 km²100.0% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
King Abdulaziz Royal Reserve
IUCN IIRoyal Reserve
249.29 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
1 distinct species · 1 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°
24,8°C
Annual rain
221mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,88
Runoff
8mm/an
PET
1 901mm
AET
184mm
Mean slope
0,4°
Water table
186cm
Forest
0%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)