HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1080983210
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 3 administrative regions across 2 countries : Bench Maji, Kapoeta, Pibor
Sub-basin area
959,2km²
Upstream area
3 244,5km²
Discharge
9,08m³/s
Mean elev.
934m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Kangen735 km²
- Bassin de Kangen186 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 487.0 km²51.0% of basin
- 466.6 km²48.9% of basin
- 1.4 km²0.1% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
4 distinct species · 20 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°
23,9°C
Annual rain
954mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,47
Runoff
86mm/an
PET
1 803mm
AET
807mm
Mean slope
5,9°
Water table
510cm
Forest
5%
Crops
2%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)