HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #2080825760
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 2 administrative regions : Basrah, Shatt Al Arab
Sub-basin area
157,8km²
Upstream area
737 703,9km²
Discharge
2 225,91m³/s
Mean elev.
3m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de خندق مائي1250 km²
- Bassin de شط العرب423 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 99.7 km²63.2% of basin
- 58.0 km²36.8% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
18 distinct species · 20 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 10 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 : 10 espèces dont 2 patrimoniales (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 7 interactions GloBI sur 2 types (connectance 15.6%, filtre Serrano α=0.2).
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
149mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,91
Runoff
48mm/an
PET
1 748mm
AET
124mm
Mean slope
0,0°
Water table
8cm
Forest
0%
Crops
17%
Urban
27%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)