HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #2080916570
Bassin de وادي العين
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
296,1km²
Upstream area
1 119,4km²
Discharge
0m³/s
Mean elev.
297m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Wadi Musayliq576 km²
- Bassin de وادي العين247 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- Al AinAbu Dhabi · United Arab Emirates184.2 km²62.4% of basin
- 110.2 km²37.3% of basin
- 1.1 km²0.4% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Jebel Hafeet National Park
IUCN IIProtected Area
1.11 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
457 distinct species · 14 040 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 29 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 العين : 21 espèces reliées par 41 interactions GloBI sur 4 types (connectance 10.1%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 8 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°
27,6°C
Annual rain
75mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,96
Runoff
6mm/an
PET
1 855mm
AET
61mm
Mean slope
0,6°
Water table
434cm
Forest
0%
Crops
17%
Urban
35%
Protected
30%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)