HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #2080726850
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 3 administrative regions : Al Hamdaniyah, Makhmur, Mosul
Sub-basin area
532,9km²
Upstream area
83 687,9km²
Discharge
974,86m³/s
Mean elev.
246m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de نهر الزاب الاعلى2479 km²
- Bassin de نهر دجلة1419 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 356.8 km²66.9% of basin
- 171.4 km²32.2% of basin
- 4.9 km²0.9% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
4 distinct species · 7 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°
20,7°C
Annual rain
364mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,78
Runoff
113mm/an
PET
1 681mm
AET
306mm
Mean slope
1,5°
Water table
160cm
Forest
0%
Crops
9%
Urban
18%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)