HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #2080818060
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 : An Nasiriyah, As Salman, Suq ash Shuyukh
Sub-basin area
977,6km²
Upstream area
456 772,1km²
Discharge
990,7m³/s
Mean elev.
8m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de شط ال ابراهيم432 km²
- Bassin de المصب العام50 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 752.6 km²77.1% of basin
- 141.4 km²14.5% of basin
- 82.7 km²8.5% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Hammar Marsh
IUCN Not ReportedWetland of International Importance (Ramsar Site)
44.79 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
6 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°
24,1°C
Annual rain
94mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,95
Runoff
30mm/an
PET
1 844mm
AET
76mm
Mean slope
0,0°
Water table
34cm
Forest
0%
Crops
60%
Urban
2%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)