HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #2080832170
Bassin de وادي الشمية
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 : Nakhl, Shurtah al-Qasimah
Sub-basin area
563,9km²
Upstream area
1 006,2km²
Discharge
0,2m³/s
Mean elev.
451m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de وادي البيضاء260 km²
- Bassin de وادي البيضاء182 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 561.3 km²99.6% of basin
- 2.1 km²0.4% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
5 distinct species · 76 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 2 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 وادي الشمية : 2 espèces dont 1 patrimoniale (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 1 interaction GloBI sur 1 type (connectance 100.0%, 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°
19,3°C
Annual rain
51mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,96
Runoff
13mm/an
PET
1 416mm
AET
44mm
Mean slope
1,8°
Water table
428cm
Forest
0%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)