HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #2080865970
Bassin · #2080865970
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 : Al Asyah, Hafar Al Batin, Rafha
Sub-basin area
447,4km²
Upstream area
447,7km²
Discharge
0m³/s
Mean elev.
478m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 325.3 km²72.8% of basin
- 81.0 km²18.1% of basin
- 40.4 km²9.0% of basin
2 intersecting protected areas
Royal Reserve
446.70 km² overlap
Hafr al-Batin
IUCN VIProtected Area
343.16 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
0 distinct species · 0 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°
23,9°C
Annual rain
202mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,89
Runoff
7mm/an
PET
1 880mm
AET
169mm
Mean slope
0,1°
Water table
78cm
Forest
0%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)