HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #2080750710
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 across 2 countries : Abu Kamal, Al Qa'im
Sub-basin area
2 322,8km²
Upstream area
223 793,5km²
Discharge
801,91m³/s
Mean elev.
270m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de الفرات962 km²
- Bassin de الفرات611 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 2193.7 km²94.5% of basin
- 128.7 km²5.5% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
16 distinct species · 19 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°
19,9°C
Annual rain
122mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,93
Runoff
13mm/an
PET
1 632mm
AET
102mm
Mean slope
0,3°
Water table
134cm
Forest
0%
Crops
25%
Urban
2%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)