Ontologia

HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1080996000

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 1 administrative regions : Kapoeta

Pfafstetter: 17268705

Sub-basin area

567,9km²

Upstream area

15 582,7km²

Discharge

14,04m³/s

Mean elev.

442m

Administrative coverage

Hydrographic chain

▼ Drains into

Bassin de Kangen23 km²

▲ Receives from 2 basins

1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)

1 intersecting protected areas

  • Boma

    IUCN II

    National Park

    196.15 km² overlap

Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.

Species present

1 distinct species · 14 observations

Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.

Densité d'observations

14 obs · 8 cellules
Obs. / cellule
≥ 5
5–4
2–4
1–1
< 1

Source : GBIF — observations agrégées par hexagones 0.027° × 0.027° (~22km), filtre précision coordonnée < 10 km. Fond carte : OpenFreeMap · © OpenStreetMap.

Ecological tissue

Not enough documented interactions to build a meaningful graph for this territory.

Hydroclimate (BasinATLAS lev08)

Mean T°

27,2°C

Annual rain

694mm

Moisture idx (CMI)

-0,65

Runoff

6mm/an

PET

1 957mm

AET

586mm

Mean slope

0,0°

Water table

7cm

Forest

0%

Crops

7%

Urban

0%

Protected

35%

HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)