HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #2080927460
Bassin · #2080927460
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 2 administrative regions : Afif, Al Taif
Sub-basin area
395km²
Upstream area
395km²
Discharge
0,12m³/s
Mean elev.
969m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 349.8 km²88.8% of basin
- 44.3 km²11.2% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Saja/Umm ar-Rimth
IUCN VIProtected Area
336.72 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
4 distinct species · 4 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°
25,1°C
Annual rain
104mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,95
Runoff
12mm/an
PET
1 980mm
AET
85mm
Mean slope
0,3°
Water table
144cm
Forest
0%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
98%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)