HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1080856340
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 4 administrative regions : Al Mayom, Gogrial, Rabkona, Warab
Sub-basin area
1 138,8km²
Upstream area
153 964,8km²
Discharge
554,86m³/s
Mean elev.
393m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Bahr al Ghazal596 km²
- Bassin de Bahr al Ghazal82 km²
4 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 592.7 km²52.3% of basin
- 447.3 km²39.4% of basin
- Warab62.2 km²5.5% of basin
- 31.9 km²2.8% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
2 distinct species · 17 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°
27,6°C
Annual rain
855mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,58
Runoff
42mm/an
PET
2 047mm
AET
722mm
Mean slope
0,0°
Water table
3cm
Forest
0%
Crops
5%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)