HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #2080810880
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 : Al Khithir, As Samawah, Rumaitha
Sub-basin area
331,9km²
Upstream area
410 214,2km²
Discharge
900,61m³/s
Mean elev.
11m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de نهر القادسية302 km²
- Bassin de الفرات35 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 210.8 km²63.6% of basin
- 72.3 km²21.8% of basin
- 48.5 km²14.6% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
5 distinct species · 6 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°
23,8°C
Annual rain
105mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,94
Runoff
41mm/an
PET
1 857mm
AET
87mm
Mean slope
0,0°
Water table
13cm
Forest
0%
Crops
18%
Urban
15%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)