Bahr el Ghazal River

The second one in Top 8 Longest Rivers in South Sudan that Toplist would like to introduce to you is Bahr el Ghazal River. The Bahr el Ghazal is a South Sudanese river. The river inspired the name of the South Sudanese region of Bahr el Ghazal.

The Nile's main western tributary is the Bahr el Ghazal. It runs for 716 kilometers (445 miles) through the Sudd wetlands to Lake No, where it joins the White Nile.

The drainage basin of the Bahr al Ghazal is the largest of the Nile's sub-basins, 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 massive amounts of water lost in the Sudd wetlands. The river's discharge varies seasonally from nothing to 48 m3/s (1,700 ft3/s).

The river is formed by the confluence of the Jur and Bahr al-Arab rivers, according to some sources. However, other more recent sources claim that the river rises in the Sudd wetlands without a definitive source, that the Jur River joins at Lake Ambadi, and that the Bahr al-Arab River joins below that. The river's drainage basin, including its tributaries, covers 851,459 square kilometers (328,750 square miles) and extends west to the Central African Republic border and northwest to the Darfur region.

Length: 716 km (445 mi)