HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #2080715550
Bassin de Wādī al Murr
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 across 2 countries : Al-Malikiyah, Mosul, Sinjar, Talafar
Sub-basin area
2 503,2km²
Upstream area
2 503,4km²
Discharge
23,13m³/s
Mean elev.
392m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
4 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 2310.3 km²92.3% of basin
- 80.4 km²3.2% of basin
- 68.8 km²2.7% of basin
- 44.5 km²1.8% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
9 distinct species · 28 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°
19,6°C
Annual rain
465mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,69
Runoff
287mm/an
PET
1 489mm
AET
392mm
Mean slope
1,0°
Water table
95cm
Forest
0%
Crops
22%
Urban
4%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)