HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1080828910
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 5 administrative regions : Kumbungu, Nanton, Sagnerigu, Savelugu, Tolon
Sub-basin area
1 121,1km²
Upstream area
97 305,6km²
Discharge
240,24m³/s
Mean elev.
134m
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°
28,2°C
Annual rain
1 064mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,43
Runoff
141mm/an
PET
1 864mm
AET
890mm
Mean slope
0,5°
Water table
104cm
Forest
9%
Crops
39%
Urban
2%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)