Bahr al-Ghazal (river)
| Bahr al-Ghazal | ||
 The Bahr al Ghazal river system |
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 South Sudan
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| River system | Nile | |
| Drain over | White Nile → Nile → Mediterranean | |
| source | Mountain region near Yambio on the border with the Democratic Republic of the Congo | |
| muzzle | through the No-See in the White Nile Coordinates: 9 ° 30 '6 " N , 30 ° 23' 4" E 9 ° 30 '6 " N , 30 ° 23' 4" E
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| length | 716 km | |
| Catchment area | 555,428 km² | |
| Outflow A Eo : 555,428 km² at the mouth |
MQ Mq |
20 m³ / s 0 l / (s km²) |
| Right tributaries | Lol | |
| Big cities | Waw | |
 On the left in the picture the river in the Sudd system , in the middle the No-See |
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Bahr al-Ghazal ( Arabic بحر الغزال Bahr al-Ghazāl , DMG Baḥr al-ġazāl 'Gazelle River'; alternative name: Bahr el-Ghazal ) is a river in South Sudan .
course
The Bahr al-Ghazal is 716 km long and has its source in the mountain region near Yambio on the border with the Democratic Republic of the Congo . Its source river Sue-Jur forms the actual river Bahr al-Ghazal at the confluence with the river Bahr al-Arab near the city Wang Kai, southeast of Bentiu . It flows on through Lake No , where it meets the Bahr al-Jabal (Mountain River) and both then form the White Nile ( Bahr al-Abyad ).
The river was first recorded on a map in 1772 by the French geographer Jean-Baptiste Bourguignon d'Anville and is the namesake of the Bahr al-Ghazal region and the states of Gharb Bahr al-Ghazal and Shamal Bahr al-Ghazal .
Hydrology
The catchment area of the Bahr el Ghazal corresponds to about 20% of the area of the total catchment area of the Nile and receives an average annual rainfall of over 400 billion m³, of which only about 0.6 billion m³ flows into the No-See.
See also
literature
- William Edmund Garstin, Frank Richardson Cana: Bahr-el-Ghazal . In: Encyclopædia Britannica . 11th edition. tape 3 : Austria - Bisectrix . London 1910, p. 212–213 (English, full text [ Wikisource ]).
- Georg Schweinfurth : Perceptions on a trip from Chartūm to the Gazelle River, January – March 1869. In: Journal of the Society for Geography in Berlin. Volume 5, 1870, pp. 29-62 ( full text at Wikisource ).
Individual evidence
- ^ The Water Resources of the Nile Basin
- ↑ Torben Gerdes: Development of the water balance of the Nile. ( Memento from April 20, 2006 in the Internet Archive ; PDF) Christian-Albrechts-Universität Kiel, SS 2005 (seminar paper)