HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1080999240
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
Sub-basin area
533,5km²
Upstream area
12 644,6km²
Discharge
13,19m³/s
Mean elev.
449m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin · #1081001550527 km²
- Bassin · #1081001800292 km²
1 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 531.2 km²100.0% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Boma
IUCN IINational Park
108.15 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
1 distinct species · 12 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
657mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,66
Runoff
4mm/an
PET
1 952mm
AET
554mm
Mean slope
0,0°
Water table
7cm
Forest
0%
Crops
6%
Urban
0%
Protected
20%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)