HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #2080711780
Bassin de نهر دجلة
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 4 administrative regions : Dahuk, Simele, Talafar, Zakho
Sub-basin area
917,4km²
Upstream area
49 743,1km²
Discharge
764,05m³/s
Mean elev.
445m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de نهر دجلة1012 km²
- Bassin de نهر دجلة486 km²
4 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 588.7 km²64.1% of basin
- 311.4 km²33.9% of basin
- 9.8 km²1.1% of basin
- 7.9 km²0.9% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
20 distinct species · 56 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°
19,0°C
Annual rain
732mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,51
Runoff
396mm/an
PET
1 492mm
AET
589mm
Mean slope
2,9°
Water table
148cm
Forest
0%
Crops
14%
Urban
7%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)