Ontologia

HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1080939630

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 2 administrative regions : Akobo, Yerol

46% lakePfafstetter: 17291350

Sub-basin area

504,4km²

Upstream area

509 297,5km²

Discharge

2 036,45m³/s

Mean elev.

420m

Administrative coverage

Hydrographic chain

Receives from 2 basins

2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)

2 intersecting protected areas

  • Shambe

    IUCN II

    National Park

    289.80 km² overlap

  • Sudd

    IUCN Not Reported

    Wetland of International Importance (Ramsar Site)

    178.41 km² overlap

Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.

Species present

1 distinct species · 2 observations

Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.

Densité d'observations

2 obs · 1 cellules
Obs. / cellule
≥ 2
2–1
2–1
2–1
< 2

Source : GBIF — observations agrégées par hexagones 0.027° × 0.027° (~22km), filtre précision coordonnée < 10 km. Fond carte : OpenFreeMap · © OpenStreetMap.

Ecological tissue

Not enough documented interactions to build a meaningful graph for this territory.

Hydroclimate (BasinATLAS lev08)

Mean T°

26,8°C

Annual rain

829mm

Moisture idx (CMI)

-0,57

Runoff

18mm/an

PET

1 950mm

AET

700mm

Mean slope

0,1°

Water table

34cm

Forest

12%

Crops

2%

Urban

0%

Protected

58%

HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)