HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #2080810870
Bassin · #2080810870
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 : Al Hamza, As Salman, Najaf
Sub-basin area
1 223km²
Upstream area
5 284,8km²
Discharge
1,69m³/s
Mean elev.
178m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin · #2080816710900 km²
- Bassin · #2080816580245 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 1146.8 km²93.9% of basin
- 54.8 km²4.5% of basin
- 20.3 km²1.7% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
3 distinct species · 3 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°
23,3°C
Annual rain
92mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,95
Runoff
41mm/an
PET
1 834mm
AET
75mm
Mean slope
0,2°
Water table
69cm
Forest
0%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)