HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #2080974500
Bassin · #2080974500
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 : Muqshin, Thumrait
Sub-basin area
1 099,5km²
Upstream area
1 099,6km²
Discharge
0,05m³/s
Mean elev.
221m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 1026.9 km²93.7% of basin
- 69.2 km²6.3% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Empty Quarter Desert Reserve
IUCN VINature Reserve
1096.12 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°
27,1°C
Annual rain
34mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,98
Runoff
2mm/an
PET
1 933mm
AET
24mm
Mean slope
4,5°
Water table
244cm
Forest
0%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)