Bahr el Ghazal River

Bahr al - Ghazal (Arabic بحر الغزال Bahr al - Ghazāl, DMG Bahr al -Ghazal, Gazelle river '; alternative name: Bahr el Ghazal ) is a river in southern Sudan.

The river is 716 km long and rises in the mountain region with Yambio on the border with the Democratic Republic of Congo.

Its source river Sue -Jur forms at the confluence with the river Bahr al-Arab near the town of Wang Kai, south east of Bentiu, the actual flow of Bahr al - Ghazal.

He continues to flow through the No-See, where he met the Bahr al - Jabal ( mountain river ) coincides both form and then the White Nile ( Bahr al - Abyad ).

The catchment area of ​​Bahr el Ghazal corresponds to about 20 % of the area of the total catchment area of the River Nile and receives an average annual rainfall of about 400 billion cubic meters, of which only about 0.6 billion cubic meters flow into the No-See.

The river was first recorded in 1772 by the French geographer Jean -Baptiste Bourguignon d' Anville on a map and namesake of the Bahr al - Ghazal region and the states Gharb Bahr al Ghazal and Bahr al - Ghazal Schamal.

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