HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1080989360
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 across 2 countries : Bench Maji, Kapoeta
Sub-basin area
995,1km²
Upstream area
995,3km²
Discharge
4,19m³/s
Mean elev.
1 146m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 922.2 km²93.1% of basin
- 68.6 km²6.9% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Omo West
IUCN VIControlled Hunting Area
61.14 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
1 distinct species · 7 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°
22,7°C
Annual rain
1 042mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,39
Runoff
123mm/an
PET
1 725mm
AET
881mm
Mean slope
4,4°
Water table
454cm
Forest
1%
Crops
2%
Urban
0%
Protected
6%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)