HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1080988630
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
627,5km²
Upstream area
18 847,2km²
Discharge
16,37m³/s
Mean elev.
440m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Bellel2249 km²
- Bassin de Kangen23 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 317.3 km²50.8% of basin
- 307.5 km²49.2% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Boma
IUCN IINational Park
460.96 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
13 distinct species · 27 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°
27,2°C
Annual rain
763mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,61
Runoff
13mm/an
PET
1 960mm
AET
644mm
Mean slope
0,6°
Water table
59cm
Forest
0%
Crops
9%
Urban
0%
Protected
74%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)