Protected Area · sau
Wadi Nakhlah Nature Reserve
- Area
- 2 428 km²
- IUCN cat.
- II
- Year
- 2020
Overview
- Designation
- Protected Area
- IUCN category
- II · Parc national
Écosystèmes préservés + récréation grand public
- Established
- 2020
- Managing authority
- Royal Commission for AlUla
Source : WDPA (UNEP-WCMC, World Database on Protected Areas).
Species present
105 distinct species · 222 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 Wadi Nakhlah Nature Reserve : 27 espèces reliées par 28 interactions GloBI sur 3 types (connectance 6.4%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 3 bulles taxonomiques (cascade genre/famille GloBI, ≥3 espèces).
Comparaison sur la connectance du réseau local complet vs distribution nationale (toutes les communes françaises).
Hydrology7 basins · 0 lakes · 11 rivers
Hydrology metrics for this exact territory
Stream length here
291,8km
Basins crossed
7
Max stream order
4
Max drainage
5 709km²
Discharge in basins
1,6m³/s
Mean precip.
76mm/an
Mean T°
21,5°C
Moisture idx
-0,95
Mean runoff
19mm/an
Mean elev. (basins)
968m
Watersheds crossing here
- Bassin de وادي الغرsub-area1 713,6 km²overlap1195.91 km²49%
- Bassin de وادي الجعفريةsub-area1 206,4 km²overlap389.71 km²16%
- Bassin de وادي مطرانsub-area1 560,8 km²overlap300.92 km²12%
- Bassin de وادي تيثانsub-area1 948,9 km²overlap252.37 km²10%
- Bassin de وادي ضاعاsub-area947,5 km²overlap141.31 km²6%
- Bassin de وادي قوsub-area4 798,5 km²overlap75.89 km²3%
- Bassin de وادي الكظرsub-area976,2 km²overlap72.19 km²3%
Rivers / streams (11, ord ≥ 4)
- وادي نخلهord 4len here78.45 km100%total79 km
- تلعة القليبord 4len here51.53 km100%total52 km
- وادي الغرord 5len here48.04 km47%total103 km
- وادي الجعفريةord 3len here42.50 km49%total87 km
- وادي مطرانord 6len here30.05 km24%total127 km
- وادي مخةord 1len here13.40 km58%total23 km
- وادي تيثانord 4len here11.09 km9%total122 km
- وادي ضاعاord 3len here7.87 km6%total126 km
- تلعة ام عوشزord 2len here5.13 km40%total13 km
- شعيب سواسord 3len here3.32 km14%total24 km
- وادي عشرهord 4len here0.43 km1%total68 km
Live spatial overlap (cached after first hit) · HydroBASINS lev08 × HydroLAKES × HydroRIVERS v10
Location
Fond cartographique : OpenFreeMap · © OpenStreetMap contributors · Géométrie : nos sources (GADM/HydroBASINS/HydroLAKES/HydroRIVERS/WDPA)
- Centroid
- 26.41635, 38.61587
- Open in maps
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Species observed (Phase 2)
Listing species observed within this protected area requires the GBIF v2 partition × WDPA spatial overlay matview. Computing infrastructure pending.