HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1080789870
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 3 administrative regions : Bawku West, Binduri, Garu
Sub-basin area
279,1km²
Upstream area
43 592,3km²
Discharge
86,25m³/s
Mean elev.
193m
Administrative coverage
Species present
Ecological tissue
Graphe en cours d’indexation
Calcul du tissu écologique de cette entité.
Le graphe apparaîtra automatiquement dès que le calcul est terminé (rafraîchissement toutes les 2s).
Hydroclimate (BasinATLAS lev08)
Mean T°
28,0°C
Annual rain
982mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,49
Runoff
179mm/an
PET
1 927mm
AET
824mm
Mean slope
1,0°
Water table
140cm
Forest
30%
Crops
14%
Urban
0%
Protected
23%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)