Wetland of International Importance (Ramsar Site) · ssd
Sudd
- Area
- 24 217 km²
- IUCN cat.
- Not Reported
- Year
- 2006
Overview
- Designation
- Wetland of International Importance (Ramsar Site)
- Established
- 2006
- Managing authority
- South Sudan National Wildlife Service (SSWS)
Source : WDPA (UNEP-WCMC, World Database on Protected Areas).
Species present
255 distinct species · 1 664 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 15 species (selected proportionally per kingdom among those with at least one documented interaction here) to keep the graph readable. Hover for details, click to explore the full ecosystem of a species.
ℹ️ The territory contains many more species than displayed and all their documented interactions: the graph is intentionally the structural skeleton (top-N species by composite local score, edges filtered by Serrano 2009 disparity filter α=0.2).
Indicateurs du tissu écologique
Tissu écologique de Sudd : 14 espèces + 1 bulle famille, 11 interactions GloBI documentées sur 2 types (connectance 10.5%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). Les 1 bulle regroupe des espèces visuellement absorbées par famille (≥3 espèces visibles).
Comparaison sur la connectance du réseau local complet vs distribution nationale (toutes les communes françaises).
Hydrology58 basins · 50 lakes · 9 rivers
Hydrology metrics for this exact territory
Stream length here
1 710,0km
Lake surface here
448,77km²
Basins crossed
58
Max stream order
8
Max drainage
1 164 896km²
Discharge in basins
23 339,4m³/s
Mean precip.
829mm/an
Mean T°
27,4°C
Moisture idx
-0,58
Mean runoff
51mm/an
Mean elev. (basins)
405m
Watersheds crossing here
- Bassin de Bahr el Zerafsub-area2 535,7 km²overlap2245.51 km²9%
- Bassin de Bahr al Jabal (Mountain Nile)sub-area2 214,6 km²overlap2203.98 km²9%
- Bassin de Bahr al Jabal (Mountain Nile)sub-area1 703,7 km²overlap1696.60 km²7%
- Bassin de Bahr el Zerafsub-area2 133,3 km²overlap1644.59 km²7%
- Bassin de Bahr al Jabal (Mountain Nile)sub-area2 228,2 km²overlap1641.61 km²7%
- Bassin de Bahr el Zerafsub-area988,9 km²overlap984.70 km²4%
- Bassin de Bahr al Jabal (Mountain Nile)sub-area1 458,4 km²overlap858.25 km²4%
- Bassin de Bahr el-Ghazalsub-area883,8 km²overlap843.46 km²3%
- Bassin de Bahr al Jabal (Mountain Nile)sub-area1 390,6 km²overlap834.82 km²3%
49 more basinssorted by overlap
- Bassin de White Nilesub-area1 834,9 km²overlap816.56 km²3%
- Basin #03950sub-area3 978 km²overlap757.34 km²3%
- Bassin de White Nilesub-area1 561,1 km²overlap679.88 km²3%
- Bassin de Bahr al Jabal (Mountain Nile)sub-area761,3 km²overlap597.32 km²2%
- Bassin de Bahr el Zerafsub-area527,9 km²overlap525.72 km²2%
- Bassin de Bahr al Jabal (Mountain Nile)sub-area684 km²overlap506.61 km²2%
- Basin #01050sub-area506,2 km²overlap496.14 km²2%
- Bassin de Bahr el Zerafsub-area1 054,1 km²overlap483.44 km²2%
- Bassin de Bahr el-Ghazalsub-area2 279,1 km²overlap459.14 km²2%
- Bassin de Jonglei Canalsub-area3 956,6 km²overlap429.85 km²2%
- Bassin de Bahr el-Ghazalsub-area593,9 km²overlap360.95 km²1%
- Basin #92620sub-area436,7 km²overlap354.27 km²1%
- Bassin de Bahr al Jabal (Mountain Nile)sub-area369,7 km²overlap353.95 km²1%
- Bassin de Bahr al Jabal (Mountain Nile)sub-area2 372,9 km²overlap330.85 km²1%
- Bassin de Yei Riversub-area777,2 km²overlap295.43 km²1%
- Basin #33960sub-area781,8 km²overlap286.89 km²1%
- Bassin de Bahr al Jabal (Mountain Nile)sub-area287,4 km²overlap278.74 km²1%
- Bassin de Bahr el Zerafsub-area270,2 km²overlap269.11 km²1%
- Bassin de White Nilesub-area762,3 km²overlap262.22 km²1%
- Bassin de Guit Riversub-area1 769,6 km²overlap257.40 km²1%
- Bassin de Bahr al Jabal (Mountain Nile)sub-area181,6 km²overlap180.82 km²1%
- Bassin de Bahr al Jabal (Mountain Nile)sub-area504,4 km²overlap178.41 km²1%
- Basin #43250sub-area1 032,2 km²overlap174.56 km²1%
- Basin #01060sub-area1 580,2 km²overlap170.95 km²1%
- Bassin de Bahr el-Ghazalsub-area348,6 km²overlap168.89 km²1%
- Bassin de Bahr al 'Arab ?sub-area1 162,6 km²overlap152.91 km²1%
- Bassin de Gelsub-area626,8 km²overlap149.16 km²1%
- Bassin de Bahr el-Ghazalsub-area361,4 km²overlap148.98 km²1%
- Bassin de Bahr el-Ghazalsub-area167,1 km²overlap136.38 km²1%
- Basin #33800sub-area1 418,3 km²overlap119.73 km²0%
- Bassin de Dok Riversub-area1 606,9 km²overlap106.43 km²0%
- Basin #96530sub-area448,5 km²overlap93.32 km²0%
- Bassin de Bahr el-Ghazalsub-area86,9 km²overlap86.51 km²0%
- Bassin de Bahr el-Ghazalsub-area190,6 km²overlap79.34 km²0%
- Bassin de Bahr al Jabal (Mountain Nile)sub-area1 722,9 km²overlap78.68 km²0%
- Bassin de Bahr al Jabal (Mountain Nile)sub-area567,6 km²overlap76.95 km²0%
- Bassin de Tar riversub-area918,9 km²overlap73.55 km²0%
- Bassin de Bahr el-Ghazalsub-area104,5 km²overlap56.19 km²0%
- Bassin de Bahr al Jabal (Mountain Nile)sub-area1 045,6 km²overlap54.52 km²0%
- Basin #51860sub-area614,3 km²overlap45.67 km²0%
- Basin #21360sub-area1 339,2 km²overlap39.46 km²0%
- Bassin de Bahr el-Ghazalsub-area79,1 km²overlap31.93 km²0%
- Bassin de Bahr el-Ghazalsub-area29,3 km²overlap29.22 km²0%
- Bassin de Bahr al Jabal (Mountain Nile)sub-area14,6 km²overlap14.53 km²0%
- Bassin de Koch Riversub-area2 098,1 km²overlap6.31 km²0%
- Bassin de Bahr al 'Arab ?sub-area2 738,7 km²overlap6.29 km²0%
- Bassin de Bahr al Jabal (Mountain Nile)sub-area1,5 km²overlap1.48 km²0%
- Bassin de Guit Riversub-area444,6 km²overlap0.84 km²0%
- Bassin de Gelsub-area769,8 km²overlap0.01 km²0%
Lakes (50, top by area)
- Lake #15871area65,6 km²avg depth1.0 m
- Lake Noarea47,2 km²avg depth1.2 m
- Lake Nuongarea35,4 km²avg depth1.0 m
- Lake Shambearea29 km²avg depth1.1 m
- Lake #15843area21,2 km²avg depth1.3 m
- Lake #15864area20,6 km²avg depth1.0 m
- Lake #15893area19,5 km²avg depth1.0 m
- Lake #15890area15,3 km²avg depth1.0 m
- Lake #15842area12,2 km²avg depth1.0 m
41 more lakes
- Lake Munidengarea11,3 km²avg depth1.0 m
- Lake #79997area8,7 km²avg depth1.0 m
- Lake #80062area8,5 km²avg depth0.6 m
- Lake #80055area8,5 km²avg depth0.5 m
- Lake #79911area8,3 km²avg depth1.2 m
- Lake #80296area8,2 km²avg depth0.9 m
- Lake #80233area8 km²avg depth1.3 m
- Lake #80089area7,9 km²avg depth0.8 m
- Lake #79957area7,2 km²avg depth0.8 m
- Lake #80119area7,2 km²avg depth1.1 m
- Lake #80372area7 km²avg depth1.1 m
- Lake #80223area6,9 km²avg depth1.2 m
- Lake #80351area6,4 km²avg depth0.9 m
- Lake #80077area6,1 km²avg depth0.8 m
- Lake #80271area6 km²avg depth1.2 m
- Lake #80259area5,8 km²avg depth0.7 m
- Lake #80267area5,7 km²avg depth0.8 m
- Lake #80285area5,6 km²avg depth0.6 m
- Lake #79995area5,4 km²avg depth0.6 m
- Lake #80203area5,4 km²avg depth0.9 m
- Lake #80150area4,8 km²avg depth1.2 m
- Lake #80195area4,7 km²avg depth1.2 m
- Lake #80273area4,4 km²avg depth0.8 m
- Lake #80067area4,2 km²avg depth0.7 m
- Lake #80269area4,1 km²avg depth0.9 m
- Lake #79973area3,9 km²avg depth0.5 m
- Lake #80104area3,7 km²avg depth0.9 m
- Lake #80052area3,7 km²avg depth0.6 m
- Lake #80183area3,7 km²avg depth0.8 m
- Lake #80346area3,5 km²avg depth0.9 m
- Lake #80266area3,4 km²avg depth0.8 m
- Lake #80005area3,4 km²avg depth0.5 m
- Lake #79978area3,2 km²avg depth0.5 m
- Lake #80294area3,1 km²avg depth0.5 m
- Lake #80229area3 km²avg depth1.0 m
- Lake #80309area3 km²avg depth0.9 m
- Lake #79895area3 km²avg depth1.0 m
- Lake #80264area3 km²avg depth0.9 m
- Lake #80353area3 km²avg depth0.8 m
- Lake #80354area2,9 km²avg depth0.8 m
- Lake #80313area2,8 km²avg depth0.8 m
Rivers / streams (9, ord ≥ 4)
- Bahr al Jabal (Mountain Nile)ord 8len here1119.50 km58%total1915 km
- Bahr el Zeraford 5len here392.84 km89%total439 km
- Bahr el-Ghazalord 8len here156.23 km72%total216 km
- Koch Riverord 3len here15.97 km17%total92 km
- Gelord 5len here15.05 km17%total90 km
- Zeraf Cut 1ord 4len here3.87 km100%total4 km
- Bahr al 'Arab ?ord 7len here3.78 km2%total153 km
- Zeraf Cut Canal (North)ord 2len here2.41 km100%total2 km
- Dok Riverord 3len here0.31 km0%total115 km
Live spatial overlap (cached after first hit) · HydroBASINS lev08 × HydroLAKES × HydroRIVERS v10
Location
Fond cartographique : OpenFreeMap · © OpenStreetMap contributors · Géométrie : nos sources (GADM/HydroBASINS/HydroLAKES/HydroRIVERS/WDPA)
- Centroid
- 7.98599, 30.58866
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Species observed (Phase 2)
Listing species observed within this protected area requires the GBIF v2 partition × WDPA spatial overlay matview. Computing infrastructure pending.