HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1080854480
Bassin de Kuru River
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 : Aryat, Aweil
Sub-basin area
767,5km²
Upstream area
18 580,8km²
Discharge
58,82m³/s
Mean elev.
468m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Chel River2723 km²
- Bassin de Kuru2250 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- Aweil729.1 km²95.4% of basin
- 35.2 km²4.6% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Chelkou
IUCN VIGame Reserve
579.80 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
2 distinct species · 2 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°
27,0°C
Annual rain
878mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,58
Runoff
73mm/an
PET
2 067mm
AET
741mm
Mean slope
0,2°
Water table
71cm
Forest
0%
Crops
0%
Urban
1%
Protected
76%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)