HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #2080726860
Bassin de بەستی شەرغە
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 : Arbil, Koisnjaq, Shaqlawa
Sub-basin area
626,3km²
Upstream area
626,3km²
Discharge
2,14m³/s
Mean elev.
639m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 618.4 km²98.7% of basin
- 6.1 km²1.0% of basin
- 1.9 km²0.3% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
31 distinct species · 34 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°
19,3°C
Annual rain
674mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,55
Runoff
113mm/an
PET
1 512mm
AET
545mm
Mean slope
5,7°
Water table
366cm
Forest
0%
Crops
7%
Urban
6%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)