HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #2080804760
Bassin de نهر الأردن - נהר הירדן
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 8 administrative regions across 2 countries : Amman, Jericho, Jerusalem, Madaba, Ramallah and Al-Bireh +3
Sub-basin area
988,5km²
Upstream area
18 316,9km²
Discharge
51,74m³/s
Mean elev.
280m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de نهر الأردن - נהר הירדן329 km²
- Bassin de נחל ייטב319 km²
8 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 264.6 km²26.8% of basin
- 216.4 km²21.9% of basin
- 150.1 km²15.2% of basin
- 115.6 km²11.7% of basin
- 78.5 km²8.0% of basin
- 73.5 km²7.4% of basin
- Um El-BasatienAmman · Jordan58.1 km²5.9% of basin
- 31.0 km²3.1% of basin
7 intersecting protected areas
Wadi el Qilt
IUCN IVNature Reserve
28.64 km² overlap
Nahal Prat - Wadi Kelt
IUCN Not AssignedNature Reserve
28.24 km² overlap
Nahal Makoch
IUCN Not AssignedNature Reserve
23.20 km² overlap
Mujib Biosphere Reserve
IUCN Not ApplicableUNESCO-MAB Biosphere Reserve
9.08 km² overlap
Shefekh Ha-Yarden
IUCN Not AssignedNature Reserve
2.31 km² overlap
Central Ghor
IUCN IINature Reserve
0.40 km² overlap
Arevot Yeriho
IUCN Not AssignedNature Reserve
0.27 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
2 055 distinct species · 66 316 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 32 species (selected proportionally per kingdom among those with at least one documented interaction here) to keep the graph readable. Hover for details, click to explore the full ecosystem of a species.
ℹ️ The territory contains many more species than displayed and all their documented interactions: the graph is intentionally the structural skeleton (top-N species by composite local score, edges filtered by Serrano 2009 disparity filter α=0.2).
Indicateurs du tissu écologique
Tissu écologique de Bassin de نهر الأردن - נהר הירדן : 22 espèces dont 1 patrimoniale (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 71 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 11.9%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 13 bulles taxonomiques (cascade genre/famille GloBI, ≥3 espèces).
Comparaison sur la connectance du réseau local complet vs distribution nationale (toutes les communes françaises).
Hydroclimate (BasinATLAS lev08)
Mean T°
20,2°C
Annual rain
306mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,79
Runoff
73mm/an
PET
1 512mm
AET
257mm
Mean slope
7,6°
Water table
420cm
Forest
0%
Crops
40%
Urban
25%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)