HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1080941620
Bassin de Wahko
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 : Rumbek, Shobet, Tonj
Sub-basin area
2 646,5km²
Upstream area
12 048,8km²
Discharge
40,39m³/s
Mean elev.
464m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Wahko6495 km²
- Bassin de Wahko2908 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 1229.1 km²46.6% of basin
- 979.2 km²37.2% of basin
- 426.8 km²16.2% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Southern
IUCN IINational Park
1553.12 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
4 distinct species · 9 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°
26,9°C
Annual rain
1 056mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,47
Runoff
35mm/an
PET
1 991mm
AET
893mm
Mean slope
0,6°
Water table
109cm
Forest
66%
Crops
15%
Urban
0%
Protected
59%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)