HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1080828770
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 : Kumbungu, North Gonja, Tolon
Sub-basin area
455,5km²
Upstream area
455,5km²
Discharge
1,65m³/s
Mean elev.
179m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 350.2 km²77.2% of basin
- 73.2 km²16.1% of basin
- 30.3 km²6.7% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Mole
IUCN IINational Park
119.22 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
2 distinct species · 2 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°
28,0°C
Annual rain
1 049mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,44
Runoff
116mm/an
PET
1 862mm
AET
876mm
Mean slope
0,7°
Water table
156cm
Forest
69%
Crops
18%
Urban
0%
Protected
5%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)