HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1080957970
Bassin de South Sudan - Ethiopia
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 across 2 countries : Agnuak, Bench Maji, Pibor
Sub-basin area
926,3km²
Upstream area
8 069,8km²
Discharge
55,29m³/s
Mean elev.
995m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Dīma Shet'1063 km²
- Bassin de South Sudan - Ethiopia1010 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 788.8 km²85.5% of basin
- 102.5 km²11.1% of basin
- 31.0 km²3.4% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Akobo
IUCN VIControlled Hunting Area
780.34 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
16 distinct species · 47 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°
23,1°C
Annual rain
1 205mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,33
Runoff
188mm/an
PET
1 845mm
AET
985mm
Mean slope
5,3°
Water table
327cm
Forest
67%
Crops
4%
Urban
0%
Protected
85%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)