HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #2080916180
Bassin de Wadi Musayliq
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 across 2 countries : Al Ain, Al Buraimi, Mahdha
Sub-basin area
576,3km²
Upstream area
576,3km²
Discharge
0,02m³/s
Mean elev.
597m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 471.0 km²81.9% of basin
- Al AinAbu Dhabi · United Arab Emirates76.1 km²13.2% of basin
- 27.9 km²4.9% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Nature Reserve
48.81 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
123 distinct species · 1 339 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 20 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 Wadi Musayliq : 14 espèces dont 1 patrimoniale (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 29 interactions GloBI sur 2 types (connectance 15.3%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 6 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°
25,3°C
Annual rain
99mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,94
Runoff
12mm/an
PET
1 751mm
AET
81mm
Mean slope
5,6°
Water table
636cm
Forest
0%
Crops
7%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)