HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #2080806870
Bassin de وادي الشقيق
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 : Faqqoo', Ghour El-Mazra'ah, Madaba
Sub-basin area
186,4km²
Upstream area
6 773,8km²
Discharge
12,41m³/s
Mean elev.
92m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Wadi Hidan2058 km²
- Bassin de وادي الموجب172 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- Ghour El-Mazra'ahKarak · Jordan132.0 km²70.9% of basin
- 52.0 km²27.9% of basin
- 2.2 km²1.2% of basin
2 intersecting protected areas
Mujib Biosphere Reserve
IUCN Not ApplicableUNESCO-MAB Biosphere Reserve
88.27 km² overlap
Mujib Nature Reserve
IUCN IINature Reserve
71.91 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
240 distinct species · 1 401 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 29 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 وادي الشقيق : 20 espèces dont 2 patrimoniales (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 52 interactions GloBI sur 3 types (connectance 12.0%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 10 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°
21,4°C
Annual rain
168mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,89
Runoff
50mm/an
PET
1 593mm
AET
140mm
Mean slope
10,0°
Water table
477cm
Forest
0%
Crops
2%
Urban
3%
Protected
39%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)