HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1080978730
Bassin de Kangen
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 : Kapoeta, Pibor
Sub-basin area
1 311,4km²
Upstream area
25 206,9km²
Discharge
18,12m³/s
Mean elev.
434m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Kangen628 km²
- Bassin · #1080988620106 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 884.9 km²67.8% of basin
- 420.8 km²32.2% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Boma
IUCN IINational Park
343.66 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
2 distinct species · 25 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°
27,3°C
Annual rain
802mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,59
Runoff
11mm/an
PET
1 965mm
AET
677mm
Mean slope
0,0°
Water table
13cm
Forest
2%
Crops
10%
Urban
0%
Protected
26%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)