HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #2080911100
Bassin de وادي ملحة
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 Madinah, Badr, Yanbu
Sub-basin area
798,5km²
Upstream area
798,5km²
Discharge
0,7m³/s
Mean elev.
867m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- Al MadinahAl Madinah · Saudi Arabia789.5 km²99.1% of basin
- BadrAl Madinah · Saudi Arabia6.7 km²0.8% of basin
- YanbuAl Madinah · Saudi Arabia0.6 km²0.1% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Al Afra National Park Range
IUCN IINational Park
556.34 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
3 distinct species · 6 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°
24,5°C
Annual rain
68mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,96
Runoff
28mm/an
PET
1 916mm
AET
54mm
Mean slope
8,0°
Water table
602cm
Forest
0%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)