South Sudan Waterfall

Fula Rapids

One of the waterfalls of South Sudan.

Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 by EOX IT Services GmbH (contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data), CC BY 4.0, with relief shading from Copernicus WorldDEM-30

In numbers.

2,184m³/s

Average flow

estimate

Aug–Nov

Best months

577m

Elevation

The water at Fula Rapids, month by month

It roars from August to November.

The fullest months: from August to November. The thinnest: from February to April.

2,040 m³/sJan
1,864 m³/sFeb
1,815 m³/sMar
1,881 m³/sApr
2,052 m³/sMay
2,163 m³/sJun
2,251 m³/sJul
2,333 m³/sAug
2,349 m³/sSep
2,425 m³/sOct
2,358 m³/sNov
2,212 m³/sDec

high water best months to go

From about 1,815 m³/s in the lowest month to 2,425 m³/s in the highest. Best months to go, with plenty of water and pleasant days: from August to November.

Estimate: the timing comes from rain, snowmelt and evaporation (NASA POWER, 1991–2020); the amounts from the river model of HydroATLAS (WaterGAP, 1971–2000). Dams upstream can change the real flow.

Watercourse in South Sudan

Fula Rapids is a waterfall in South Sudan.

Getting there.

Gulu Airport (ULU)nearest airport with scheduled flights · 102 km in a straight line
From August to Novemberbest months to go (estimate)

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Seen from the sky.

8 × 8 km of cloud-free satellite image, with what OpenStreetMap knows around the falls.

Fula Rapids seen from above (Sentinel-2)

N 2 km

Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 (EOX, CC BY 4.0), 8 × 8 km, north up. Points © OpenStreetMap contributors.

The Bahr al Jabal (Mountain Nile) through the falls

The line follows the river as mapped in OpenStreetMap; heights from the 30 m Copernicus model, which smooths narrow drops — the published height of the falls is the one above.

The valley below the falls

Around the falls the river drops 10 m in 3.6 km. Here the river runs about 24 m below the lower rim of its valley.

What is around.

—viewpoints
—waymarked walking routes
—car parks
—swimming spots
—picnic sites
—toilets
—information boards and visitor centres
—bus stops within 1 km
—other named waterfalls within 4 km
—caves
—campsites
—hotels, B&Bs and huts within 6 km
—restaurants and cafés within 3 km

Counted in OpenStreetMap, the map anyone can edit, up to 2 km around the falls (unless noted). A low number may just mean nobody has mapped it yet. © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL).

Weather

The weather, month by month.

	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
Afternoon °C	37	39	38	35	32	31	30	30	31	32	33	35
Night °C	22	24	24	23	22	22	21	21	21	22	22	21
Rain & snow (mm)	11	11	48	107	146	117	126	155	145	167	94	70
Wet days	2	4	9	17	21	19	21	22	19	22	14	5
Sun h/day	9.3	8.8	7.8	7.6	8.1	7.2	6.4	6.8	7.7	7.7	8.2	9.0

Long-term averages 1991–2020 (NASA POWER) for a cell about 55 km wide, with temperatures carried to the height of the falls (577 m) at −6.5 °C per 1,000 m. Not a forecast.

Recent years

Wet years and dry years

Rain of each month as a share of the 1991–2020 average. A wet season above 100 % usually means a fuller waterfall.

	Jan	Feb	Mar	Apr	May	Jun	Jul	Aug	Sep	Oct	Nov	Dec
2020	130%	89%	274%	142%	143%	164%	236%	102%	96%	222%	169%	1,113%
2021	847%	10%	22%	89%	116%	145%	60%	35%	74%	63%	108%	91%
2022	277%	57%	56%	53%	96%	47%	90%	90%	173%	96%	165%	54%
2023	8%	35%	286%	110%	72%	71%	88%	38%	154%	123%	331%	13%
2024	63%	431%	91%	57%	39%	218%	162%	162%	105%	153%	180%	84%
2025	14%	5%	115%	119%	58%	41%	116%	34%	61%	71%	124%	29%

130% wetter than usual 70% drier than usual

Compare with the waterfalls nearby.

Fula Rapids

South Sudan

—Height
2,184 m³/sAverage flow
Aug–NovBest months

Aruu Falls

Uganda

—Height
0.24 m³/sAverage flow
May, Aug–OctBest months

See the guide

Murchison Falls

Uganda

43 mHeight
300 m³/sAverage flow
Sep–DecBest months

See the guide

Miriadua waterfalls

Uganda

—Height
0.49 m³/sAverage flow
Aug–NovBest months

See the guide

About these numbers

Names, height, width, river	Wikidata (Q20915258) · CC0
River flow and catchment	HydroATLAS / RiverATLAS v1.0 (Linke et al. 2019) · CC BY 4.0
Climate	NASA POWER, 1991–2020
Relief, river profile, 3D model	Copernicus DEM GLO-30 · © DLR e.V., © Airbus Defence and Space GmbH, Copernicus/ESA
Paths, viewpoints, parking	© OpenStreetMap contributors · ODbL
Images	EOX Sentinel-2 cloudless 2016 · CC BY 4.0; Wikimedia Commons

Every figure is an average, an estimate or a count from a public dataset. Licences and methods: data sources.