HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1080865480
Bassin de Chel 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 1 administrative regions : Aweil
Sub-basin area
2 723,2km²
Upstream area
15 563,3km²
Discharge
44,85m³/s
Mean elev.
510m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Chel River2088 km²
- Bassin de Chel River700 km²
1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- Aweil2711.8 km²100.0% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Chelkou
IUCN VIGame Reserve
1559.96 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
2 distinct species · 3 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°
26,7°C
Annual rain
993mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,52
Runoff
73mm/an
PET
2 060mm
AET
839mm
Mean slope
0,7°
Water table
126cm
Forest
44%
Crops
9%
Urban
0%
Protected
58%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)