HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1080910760
Bassin de Bahr al Jabal (Mountain Nile)
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 3 administrative regions : Akobo, Al Leiri, Ayod
Sub-basin area
761,3km²
Upstream area
542 113,9km²
Discharge
1 989,43m³/s
Mean elev.
405m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 528.5 km²69.7% of basin
- 179.9 km²23.7% of basin
- 49.6 km²6.5% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Sudd
IUCN Not ReportedWetland of International Importance (Ramsar Site)
597.32 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
17 distinct species · 18 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°
27,1°C
Annual rain
838mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,58
Runoff
32mm/an
PET
1 977mm
AET
708mm
Mean slope
0,0°
Water table
4cm
Forest
0%
Crops
1%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)