HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #2080705870
Bassin de نهر الخابور
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 : Amedi, Dahuk, Zakho
Sub-basin area
270,4km²
Upstream area
2 717,6km²
Discharge
52,18m³/s
Mean elev.
834m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de وادي خندخانديك331 km²
- Bassin de نهر الخابور230 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 202.4 km²74.8% of basin
- 54.9 km²20.3% of basin
- 13.3 km²4.9% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
10 distinct species · 10 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°
16,7°C
Annual rain
801mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,41
Runoff
488mm/an
PET
1 367mm
AET
609mm
Mean slope
8,7°
Water table
420cm
Forest
0%
Crops
51%
Urban
2%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)