HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1080820780
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 : Kumbungu, Mamprugu Moagduri, Savelugu, West Mamprusi
Sub-basin area
1 300,9km²
Upstream area
87 314,1km²
Discharge
210,93m³/s
Mean elev.
137m
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°
28,3°C
Annual rain
1 030mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,46
Runoff
144mm/an
PET
1 891mm
AET
856mm
Mean slope
0,3°
Water table
55cm
Forest
51%
Crops
32%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)