HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1080910550
Bassin de Bahr el Zeraf
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 : Akobo, Ayod
Sub-basin area
2 535,7km²
Upstream area
2 535,7km²
Discharge
2,35m³/s
Mean elev.
412m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 2073.9 km²82.1% of basin
- 451.0 km²17.9% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Sudd
IUCN Not ReportedWetland of International Importance (Ramsar Site)
2245.51 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
3 distinct species · 8 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 3 species (selected proportionally per kingdom among those with at least one documented interaction here) to keep the graph readable. Hover for details, click to explore the full ecosystem of a species.
ℹ️ The territory contains many more species than displayed and all their documented interactions: the graph is intentionally the structural skeleton (top-N species by composite local score, edges filtered by Serrano 2009 disparity filter α=0.2).
Indicateurs du tissu écologique
Tissu écologique de Bassin de Bahr el Zeraf : 3 espèces dont 1 patrimoniale (LR IUCN CR/EN/VU) reliées par 2 interactions GloBI sur 1 type (connectance 66.7%, filtre Serrano α=0.2).
Comparaison sur la connectance du réseau local complet vs distribution nationale (toutes les communes françaises).
Hydroclimate (BasinATLAS lev08)
Mean T°
27,0°C
Annual rain
817mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,58
Runoff
28mm/an
PET
1 958mm
AET
690mm
Mean slope
0,0°
Water table
4cm
Forest
1%
Crops
0%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)