HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1080803360
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, Mamprugu Moagduri, West Mamprusi
Sub-basin area
358,4km²
Upstream area
62 224,3km²
Discharge
136,51m³/s
Mean elev.
141m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Bukpegi191 km²
- Bassin de White Volta0 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 188.2 km²52.7% of basin
- 115.5 km²32.3% of basin
- 53.3 km²14.9% of basin
2 intersecting protected areas
Pogi
IUCN VIForest Reserve
2.46 km² overlap
Wiaga Kandema
IUCN VIForest Reserve
0.00 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
75 distinct species · 81 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
Ecological tissue
Sample of 10 species (selected proportionally per kingdom among those with at least one documented interaction here) to keep the graph readable. Hover for details, click to explore the full ecosystem of a species.
ℹ️ The territory contains many more species than displayed and all their documented interactions: the graph is intentionally the structural skeleton (top-N species by composite local score, edges filtered by Serrano 2009 disparity filter α=0.2).
Indicateurs du tissu écologique
Tissu écologique de Bassin de White Volta : 7 espèces reliées par 7 interactions GloBI sur 2 types (connectance 15.6%, filtre Serrano α=0.2). 3 bulles taxonomiques (cascade genre/famille GloBI, ≥3 espèces).
Comparaison sur la connectance du réseau local complet vs distribution nationale (toutes les communes françaises).
Hydroclimate (BasinATLAS lev08)
Mean T°
28,3°C
Annual rain
1 012mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,47
Runoff
149mm/an
PET
1 902mm
AET
843mm
Mean slope
0,3°
Water table
59cm
Forest
65%
Crops
43%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)