HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1080869450
Bassin de Bahr al 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
595,6km²
Upstream area
77 528,7km²
Discharge
416,29m³/s
Mean elev.
393m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Bahr al Ghazal724 km²
- Bassin de Nahr al Jur585 km²
4 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 280.0 km²47.2% of basin
- Warab257.3 km²43.4% of basin
- 31.5 km²5.3% of basin
- 24.3 km²4.1% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
29 distinct species · 38 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
869mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,58
Runoff
39mm/an
PET
2 047mm
AET
734mm
Mean slope
0,0°
Water table
3cm
Forest
0%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)