HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1080685250
Bassin de Gouaya
A watershed (drainage basin) is not a body of water — it is the land area where rainfall converges towards a single river that eventually reaches the sea (or an endorheic basin). Boundaries follow ridgelines.
Crosses 2 administrative regions : Namentenga, Sanmatenga
Sub-basin area
584,2km²
Upstream area
584,2km²
Discharge
0,65m³/s
Mean elev.
306m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 528.1 km²90.7% of basin
- 53.9 km²9.3% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
2 distinct species · 12 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Not enough documented interactions to build a meaningful graph for this territory.
Hydroclimate (BasinATLAS lev08)
Mean T°
28,3°C
Annual rain
580mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,72
Runoff
30mm/an
PET
2 043mm
AET
488mm
Mean slope
0,2°
Water table
81cm
Forest
0%
Crops
17%
Urban
2%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)