Bahr el Ghazal River
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The Bahr el Ghazal (Template:Langx) or Naam River (Nuer) is a river in South Sudan. The South Sudanese region of Bahr el Ghazal takes its name from the river.
The Bahr el Ghazal is the main western tributary of the Nile. It is Script error: No such module "convert". long, flowing through the Sudd wetlands to Lake No, where it joins the White Nile.[1]
Hydrology
The Bahr al Ghazal's drainage basin is the largest of any of the Nile's subbasins, measuring 520,000 km2 (200,800 mi2) in size, but it contributes a relatively small amount of water, about 2 m3/s (70 ft3/s) annually, due to tremendous volumes of water being lost in the Sudd wetlands.[2] Seasonally, the river's discharge ranges from nothing to 48 m3/s (1,700 ft3/s).[1]
According to some sources, the river is formed by the confluence of the Jur River and Bahr al-Arab rivers.[1] However other more recent sources say the river rises in the Sudd wetlands with no definitive source, that the Jur River joins at Lake Ambadi, and the Bahr al-Arab joins below that.[3] The river's drainage basin, including its tributaries, is Script error: No such module "convert". and reaches west to the border of the Central African Republic and northwest to the Darfur region.
History
The river was first mapped in 1772 by French geographer Jean-Baptiste Bourguignon d'Anville, although it was vaguely known to early Greek geographers.
See also
References
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External links
- Template:Cite EB1911
- Bahr-el-Ghazal, The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
- Baḩr al Ghazāl Template:Webarchive, GEOnet Names Server