Jur River

The Jur River (also Sue River) is a river in southwestern Sudan, flowing through the Bahr el Ghazal and Equatoria regions. About convert|485|km|mi long, it flows north and northeast, joining the Bahr al-Ghazal on the western side of the Sudd wetlands. The Jur River is part of the Nile basin, as the Bahr al-Ghazal flows into the White Nile.

Course

The Jur River's headwaters flow from the drainage divide between the Nile and Congo River basins, along Sudan's border with the Democratic Republic of the Congo and the Central African Republic. The main tributaries being the Sue River (itself sometimes called the Jur), Busseri River, Wau River, and Numatinna River. The spelling and precise meaning of these river names differ among sources. The tributaries come together near Wau, the capital of the state of West Bahr al Ghazal.

Below Wau the Jur River bends eastward, entering the swampy Sudd region. Due to the nature of the wetlands it is not always clear whether one river flows into another or merely merges in the general Sudd swamps. Some sources cite the Lol River as a tributary of the Jur while others do not. Some sources say the Jur joins the Bahr al-Arab and the confluence marks the start of the Bahr al-Ghazal, but more recent sources say that the Jur joins the Bahr al-Ghazal at Lake Ambadi and that the Bahr al-Arab joins the Bahr al-Ghazal some distance downriver from Lake Ambadi.

History

Among the ethnic groups living in the Jur basin are the Dinka. "Jur" is a Dinka word for "alien" or "non-Dinka". [cite book |last= Beswick |first= Stephanie |title= Sudan's Blood Memory: The Legacy of War, Ethnicity, and Slavery in South Sudan |year= 2004 |publisher= Boydell & Brewer |isbn= 1580461514 |page= 245; online at [http://books.google.com/books?id=r61i6BD0Vw0C Google Books] ]

The Jur River was explored by John Petherick between 1853 and 1865. In 1897-1898 the Jur River was carefully surveyed throughout its course by Lieutenant A.H. Dyé and other members of a French mission under Jean-Baptiste Marchand during the Scramble for Africa. [cite encyclopedia |last= Chisholm |first= Hugh |encyclopedia= Encyclopædia Britannica |title= Bahr-el-Ghazal |edition= Eleventh Edition |year= 1910 |publisher= Encyclopædia Britannica |volume= vol. III |pages= p. 213; online at [http://books.google.com/books?id=cU3qzJlu7RIC Google Books] ] [cite book |last= Collins |first= Robert O. |title= The Nile |year= 2002 |publisher= Yale University Press |isbn= 0300097646 |pages= p. 58; online at [http://books.google.com/books?id=cql8L7mF11MC Google Books] ]

ee also

*List of rivers of Sudan

References

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