HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1080792840
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 4 administrative regions : Bawku West, East Mamprusi, Garu, Talensi
Sub-basin area
246,3km²
Upstream area
45 482,3km²
Discharge
96,12m³/s
Mean elev.
226m
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°
27,7°C
Annual rain
1 009mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,47
Runoff
176mm/an
PET
1 908mm
AET
836mm
Mean slope
2,6°
Water table
299cm
Forest
75%
Crops
13%
Urban
0%
Protected
75%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)