HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #2080725600
Bassin de الفرات
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 2 administrative regions : Ar-Raqqah, Ath-Thawrah
Sub-basin area
35,9km²
Upstream area
118 731,2km²
Discharge
735,26m³/s
Mean elev.
263m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de الفرات604 km²
- Bassin de الفرات456 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 35.3 km²98.1% of basin
- 0.7 km²1.9% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
8 distinct species · 16 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°
18,2°C
Annual rain
189mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,88
Runoff
14mm/an
PET
1 541mm
AET
160mm
Mean slope
0,5°
Water table
92cm
Forest
9%
Crops
96%
Urban
34%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)