HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #2080778270
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 3 administrative regions : Abu Ghraib, Al Fallujah, Mahmudiya
Sub-basin area
658,5km²
Upstream area
304 178,8km²
Discharge
850,02m³/s
Mean elev.
49m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de الفرات431 km²
- Bassin de الفرات168 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 385.1 km²58.5% of basin
- 190.6 km²29.0% of basin
- 82.5 km²12.5% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
3 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°
22,6°C
Annual rain
127mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,93
Runoff
62mm/an
PET
1 799mm
AET
105mm
Mean slope
0,2°
Water table
74cm
Forest
0%
Crops
52%
Urban
1%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)