HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1080795450
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 : Builsa South, Kasena Nankana East, West Mamprusi
Sub-basin area
0,2km²
Upstream area
61 674,9km²
Discharge
133,94m³/s
Mean elev.
129m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Asibelika1698 km²
- Bassin de White Volta156 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 0.1 km²47.6% of basin
- 0.1 km²38.7% of basin
- 0.0 km²13.7% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Wiaga Kandema
IUCN VIForest Reserve
0.14 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
5 distinct species · 5 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°
28,4°C
Annual rain
1 002mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,47
Runoff
150mm/an
PET
1 908mm
AET
834mm
Mean slope
0,8°
Water table
12cm
Forest
0%
Crops
22%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)