HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1080782860
Bassin de White Volta
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 : Bawku West, Binduri
Sub-basin area
124,5km²
Upstream area
42 459,1km²
Discharge
79,99m³/s
Mean elev.
197m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de White Volta277 km²
- Bassin de White Volta247 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 99.9 km²80.5% of basin
- 24.1 km²19.5% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Red Volta East
IUCN IVForest Reserve
8.79 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
13 distinct species · 14 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°
28,0°C
Annual rain
964mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,50
Runoff
167mm/an
PET
1 930mm
AET
814mm
Mean slope
0,9°
Water table
136cm
Forest
10%
Crops
27%
Urban
6%
Protected
9%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)