HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #2080831180
Bassin de شط البصرة
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 : Abu al Khasib, Al Zubair, Basrah
Sub-basin area
129,3km²
Upstream area
129,3km²
Discharge
0,03m³/s
Mean elev.
8m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 71.8 km²55.6% of basin
- 56.8 km²43.9% of basin
- 0.6 km²0.5% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
9 distinct species · 11 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°
24,6°C
Annual rain
140mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,92
Runoff
7mm/an
PET
1 835mm
AET
116mm
Mean slope
0,1°
Water table
50cm
Forest
0%
Crops
10%
Urban
26%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)