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Bahr el-Ghazal (wadi in Chad)

The 883rd longest river in the world

km

The Bahr el-Ghazal is a wadi, or dry riverbed, in central Chad. When water flows through it (which in modern times happens only in rare, extreme rainfall events), it flows from southwest to northeast, away from Lake Chad and into the Bodélé Depression. The "sill" of the Bahr el-Ghazal is the lowest point on the drainage divide between the Lake Chad and Bodélé basins. In the past, when Lake Chad filled to this point and overflowed, it was drained by the Bahr el-Ghazal.

Flows through: Chad.

River data from Wikidata (CC0); lengths normalised to a common unit.

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