HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #2080735770
Bassin de Tharthar
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 5 administrative regions : Al Shirkat, Bayji, Hatra, Mosul, Sinjar
Sub-basin area
2 327,3km²
Upstream area
6 827,4km²
Discharge
21,02m³/s
Mean elev.
195m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Wadi al Khubbazah843 km²
- Bassin de وادي الثرثار249 km²
5 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 1596.4 km²68.6% of basin
- 661.4 km²28.4% of basin
- 47.3 km²2.0% of basin
- 17.0 km²0.7% of basin
- 5.3 km²0.2% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
21 distinct species · 36 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°
20,9°C
Annual rain
261mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,84
Runoff
82mm/an
PET
1 660mm
AET
219mm
Mean slope
0,6°
Water table
190cm
Forest
0%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)