Macro-engineering Seawater in Unique Environments, Viorel Badescu, pp. 530, Springer, 2011, ISBN 9783642147791, ... The Qattara Depression has a below Mediterranean Sea level area of about 19,605 km2 and a total volume of 1,213 km3 with a maximum depth of 134 m b.m.s.l. It has a maximum length of 300 km and width of 145 km ...