HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #2080843160
Bassin de وادي رم
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 : Aqaba, Iel, Ma'an, Quaira
Sub-basin area
804,7km²
Upstream area
2 303,3km²
Discharge
0m³/s
Mean elev.
1 001m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin · #2080844860847 km²
- Bassin de وادي سلادح652 km²
4 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 690.7 km²85.9% of basin
- 96.6 km²12.0% of basin
- 15.0 km²1.9% of basin
- 1.5 km²0.2% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Wadi Rum Protected Area
IUCN Not ApplicableWorld Heritage Site (natural or mixed)
292.09 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
538 distinct species · 6 832 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 31 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 رم : 19 espèces reliées par 47 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 10.1%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 12 bulles taxonomiques (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°
18,6°C
Annual rain
61mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,96
Runoff
11mm/an
PET
1 536mm
AET
51mm
Mean slope
8,9°
Water table
659cm
Forest
0%
Crops
1%
Urban
0%
Protected
36%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)