HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1080795460
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 : Kasena Nankana East, Talensi, West Mamprusi
Sub-basin area
155,9km²
Upstream area
59 976,6km²
Discharge
126,1m³/s
Mean elev.
150m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Agrumatue1814 km²
- Bassin de White Volta498 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 98.0 km²63.1% of basin
- 56.9 km²36.6% of basin
- 0.4 km²0.3% of basin
2 intersecting protected areas
Ankwai East
IUCN VIForest Reserve
11.27 km² overlap
Wiaga Kandema
IUCN VIForest Reserve
4.68 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
19 distinct species · 19 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
999mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,48
Runoff
149mm/an
PET
1 907mm
AET
832mm
Mean slope
0,9°
Water table
142cm
Forest
43%
Crops
29%
Urban
0%
Protected
22%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)