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The Sudd (Arabic: السد, romanized: as-Sudd, Nuer: Baki̱ec, Dinka: Toc) is a vast swamp in South Sudan, formed by the White Nile's Baḥr al-Jabal section. The Arabic word sudd is derived from sadd , meaning "barrier" [2] or "obstruction". [3] The term "the sudd" has come to refer to any large solid floating vegetation island or mat.
Fishing in the Sudd Wetland, one of the largest wetlands in the world. The total area under protection is around 143,000 km 2 (55,000 sq mi) spread over 23 protected areas which account for 15% of the South Sudanese territory. The largest protected area is the Sudd Wetland, which is an important bird life area covering 57,000 km 2 (22,000 sq mi).
From Meroe the Roman party travelled 600 miles up the White Nile, until they reached the swamp-like Sudd in what is now southern Sudan, a fetid wetland filled with ferns, papyrus reeds and thick mats of rotting vegetation. In the rainy season it covers an area larger than England, with a vast humid swamp teeming with mosquitoes and other insects.
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The name is derived from the Arabic word for barrier, and for centuries the area was deemed impenetrable – the Sudd marked the southern limit of the Roman Empire’s expansion into Africa.
In Sudan west of the Sudd swamp east Sudanian savanna covers the Bahr el Ghazal area including the town of Wau. East of the Sudd the ecoregion runs north to south from northern Uganda, through south-eastern Sudan east of the White Nile (including the area around the southern cities of Juba and Eastern Equatoria around Torit ), and up along the ...
In 61 AD the group of Roman Soldiers who were sent by Emperor Neo arrived in Sudd Swamp and encounter a Nilotic Speakers tribes. And as indicated by the Archaeologist Roland Oliver, Nilotic archaeological evidences around Sudd Swamp have been there since 3000 BCE and with the break down of Nilotic historical migrations timeline to Upper Nile ...
The Sudd swamp which forms the central part of the basin may still be subsiding. The White Nile Rift system, although shallower than the Bahr el Arab rift , is about 9 kilometers (5.6 mi) deep. Geophysical exploration of the Blue Nile Rift System estimated the depth of the sediments to be 5–9 kilometers (3.1–5.6 mi).