HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1080852420
Bassin de Bahr el-Ghazal
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 : Al Mayom, Rabkona
Sub-basin area
190,6km²
Upstream area
536 524,4km²
Discharge
1 077,17m³/s
Mean elev.
395m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Bahr al 'Arab ?2739 km²
- Bassin de Bahr el-Ghazal9 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 182.3 km²96.1% of basin
- 7.5 km²3.9% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Sudd
IUCN Not ReportedWetland of International Importance (Ramsar Site)
79.34 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
1 distinct species · 8 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°
27,4°C
Annual rain
832mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,59
Runoff
81mm/an
PET
2 041mm
AET
702mm
Mean slope
0,0°
Water table
5cm
Forest
0%
Crops
8%
Urban
1%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)