HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1080949500
Bassin de Nahr al Jur
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 : Tombura, Wau
Sub-basin area
286,6km²
Upstream area
26 096km²
Discharge
177,5m³/s
Mean elev.
502m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Nahr al Jur495 km²
- Bassin de Nahr al Jur372 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- Tombura262.0 km²91.8% of basin
- 23.4 km²8.2% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Southern
IUCN IINational Park
136.59 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
4 distinct species · 4 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°
26,7°C
Annual rain
1 204mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,39
Runoff
54mm/an
PET
1 972mm
AET
1 018mm
Mean slope
1,1°
Water table
175cm
Forest
99%
Crops
29%
Urban
0%
Protected
48%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)