Sobat River

Geobox River
name = Sobat River
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image_caption = Sobat River from air
country = Sudan
state = Upper Nile
region =
district =
city =
length = 354
length_note = cite web | url= http://www.library.eb.com/eb/article-9068426 | title= Sobat River | accessdate= 2008-01-21 | work= Encyclopædia Britannica Online Library Edition | publisher= Encyclopædia Britannica]
watershed = 225000
discharge_location = Hillet Doleib
discharge = 412
discharge_max = 680
discharge_min = 99
source_name = Pibor River and Baro River confluence
source_location =
source_district =
source_region =
source_state = Jonglei
source_country = Sudan
source_lat_d = 8
source_lat_m = 26
source_lat_s = 10
source_lat_NS = N
source_long_d = 33
source_long_m = 13
source_long_s = 7
source_long_EW = E
mouth_name = White Nile
mouth_location =
mouth_district =
mouth_region =
mouth_state = Upper Nile
mouth_country = Sudan
mouth_lat_d = 9
mouth_lat_m = 22
mouth_lat_s = 2
mouth_lat_NS = N
mouth_long_d = 31
mouth_long_m = 32
mouth_long_s = 57
mouth_long_EW = E
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map_caption = The Sobat River is a river in Sudan, Africa. The most southernly of the great eastern tributaries of the Nile, the Sobat enters the White Nile at Dolieb Hill, near the city of Malakal in the Upper Nile state of Sudan. The Sobat River is formed by the confluence of the west-flowing Baro River and the north-flowing Pibor River, on the border with Ethiopia.

When in flood the Sobat River produces an enormous discharge carrying a white sediment, which gives the White Nile its name.

The Sobat and its tributaries drain a watershed approximately convert|225000|km2|sqmi|abbr=on in size. The river's mean annual discharge is 412 m³/s (14,550 ft³/s). [cite book |last= Shahin |first= Mamdouh |title= Hydrology and Water Resources of Africa |year= 2002 |publisher= Springer |isbn= 140200866X |pages= pp. 276, 288; online at [http://books.google.com/books?id=ZmdYFTlcSgEC Google Books] ]

ee also

*List of rivers of Sudan

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