HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1080889100
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 2 administrative regions : Aweil, Raja
Sub-basin area
2 087,8km²
Upstream area
12 141,3km²
Discharge
37,05m³/s
Mean elev.
556m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Biri173 km²
- Bassin de Chel River66 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 1154.1 km²55.5% of basin
- Aweil924.9 km²44.5% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Chelkou
IUCN VIGame Reserve
676.03 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
3 distinct species · 5 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°
26,3°C
Annual rain
1 125mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,45
Runoff
76mm/an
PET
2 061mm
AET
943mm
Mean slope
1,0°
Water table
130cm
Forest
74%
Crops
21%
Urban
0%
Protected
33%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)