HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #2080806340

Bassin de נחל ערוגות

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 4 administrative regions across 2 countries : Bethlehem, Ghour El-Mazra'ah, Hebron, Madaba

Endorheic 166% lakePfafstetter: 29906210

Sub-basin area

1 165,8km²

Upstream area

15 935,1km²

Discharge

5,14m³/s

Mean elev.

219m

Administrative coverage

Hydrographic chain

▼ Drains into

Bassin de נחל תקוע594 km²

▲ Receives from 2 basins

Bassin de Wadi Ma'tan1467 km²
Bassin de נחל הערבה25 km²

4 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)

Hebron
West Bank · Palestine
418.8 km²
36.0% of basin
Ghour El-Mazra'ah
Karak · Jordan
124.0 km²
10.6% of basin
Bethlehem
West Bank · Palestine
65.2 km²
5.6% of basin
Madaba
Madaba · Jordan
5.5 km²
0.5% of basin

13 intersecting protected areas

Midbar Yehuda
IUCN Not Assigned
Nature Reserve
150.93 km² overlap
Dead Sea coast
IUCN IV
Nature Reserve
84.85 km² overlap
El Kanub
IUCN IV
Nature Reserve
29.01 km² overlap
Mazuq Ha-He'teqim
IUCN Not Assigned
Nature Reserve
19.22 km² overlap
En Gedi
IUCN Not Assigned
Nature Reserve
13.80 km² overlap
Al Kuweiyis
IUCN IV
Nature Reserve
12.68 km² overlap
Mezada
IUCN Not Assigned
National Park
2.75 km² overlap
Mezada (Harhava)
IUCN Not Assigned
National Park
1.73 km² overlap
Tel Qeriyyot
IUCN Not Assigned
Nature Reserve
0.88 km² overlap

4 more protected areassorted by overlap area

Jebel El Qarn
IUCN V
Nature Reserve
0.53 km² overlap
En Gedi (Harhava)
IUCN Not Assigned
Nature Reserve
0.26 km² overlap
Tel Arad (harhava)
IUCN Not Assigned
National Park
0.04 km² overlap
Atiqot En Gedi
IUCN Not Assigned
National Park
0.01 km² overlap

Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.

Species present

2 148 distinct species · 147 715 observations

Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.

Ecological tissue

Sample of 37 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).

RègnesAnimalPlanteChampignonBacterie

RelationsPredationParasitismeSymbiosePollinisation

StatutEn dangerVulnérableProtégéeEndémique

RègnesAnimalPlanteChampignonBacterie

RelationsPredationParasitismeSymbiosePollinisation

StatutEn dangerVulnérableProtégéeEndémique

Indicateurs du tissu écologique

Tissu écologique de Bassin de נחל ערוגות : 30 espèces dont 5 patrimoniales (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 52 interactions GloBI sur 3 types (connectance 7.4%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 8 bulles taxonomiques (cascade genre/famille GloBI, ≥3 espèces).

Espèces affichées

Interactions affichées

Connectance

0.074

Patrimoniales

Plus dense que (national)0 %(top 100%)

Comparaison sur la connectance du réseau local complet vs distribution nationale (toutes les communes françaises).

Hydroclimate (BasinATLAS lev08)

Mean T°

20,6°C

Annual rain

222mm

Moisture idx (CMI)

-0,85

Runoff

87mm/an

PET

1 531mm

AET

187mm

Mean slope

5,6°

Water table

336cm

Forest

Crops

Urban

Protected

14%

HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)