HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1080829700
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, North Gonja, Savelugu
Sub-basin area
620,1km²
Upstream area
93 285,6km²
Discharge
228,1m³/s
Mean elev.
135m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de White Volta1301 km²
- Bassin de Nasia1029 km²
4 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 369.1 km²59.8% of basin
- 134.6 km²21.8% of basin
- 100.1 km²16.2% of basin
- 13.8 km²2.2% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Mole
IUCN IINational Park
7.81 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
7 distinct species · 8 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°
28,2°C
Annual rain
1 044mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,44
Runoff
132mm/an
PET
1 875mm
AET
872mm
Mean slope
0,3°
Water table
70cm
Forest
38%
Crops
20%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)