HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #2080087540
Bassin de شعيب معدا الساده
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 3 administrative regions : Duma al-Jandal, Hail, Tayma
Sub-basin area
2 740,3km²
Upstream area
2 740,4km²
Discharge
0,15m³/s
Mean elev.
944m
Administrative coverage
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 1386.7 km²50.7% of basin
- TaymaTabuk · Saudi Arabia983.3 km²35.9% of basin
- 366.2 km²13.4% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Royal Reserve
2736.20 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°
21,2°C
Annual rain
79mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,95
Runoff
5mm/an
PET
1 679mm
AET
65mm
Mean slope
2,5°
Water table
421cm
Forest
0%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
46%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)