HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #2080822480
Bassin de شط العرب
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 : Al Madiana, Al Qurnah, Basrah, Shatt Al Arab
Sub-basin area
423,4km²
Upstream area
736 295,6km²
Discharge
2 279,67m³/s
Mean elev.
4m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de نهر الكلب16 km²
- Bassin de شط العرب12 km²
4 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 269.8 km²63.8% of basin
- 63.3 km²15.0% of basin
- 46.5 km²11.0% of basin
- 43.5 km²10.3% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Hammar Marsh
IUCN Not ReportedWetland of International Importance (Ramsar Site)
4.22 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
54 distinct species · 80 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 5 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 شط العرب : 4 espèces reliées par 3 interactions GloBI sur 2 types (connectance 30.0%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 1 bulle taxonomique (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°
24,2°C
Annual rain
138mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,92
Runoff
55mm/an
PET
1 791mm
AET
115mm
Mean slope
0,0°
Water table
8cm
Forest
0%
Crops
11%
Urban
14%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)