HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1080831660
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
844,6km²
Upstream area
98 605,3km²
Discharge
241,88m³/s
Mean elev.
187m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de White Volta1121 km²
- Bassin de White Volta456 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 472.9 km²56.2% of basin
- 366.2 km²43.5% of basin
- 2.0 km²0.2% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Mole
IUCN IINational Park
303.45 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
16 distinct species · 18 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°
27,9°C
Annual rain
1 054mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,43
Runoff
116mm/an
PET
1 855mm
AET
882mm
Mean slope
0,8°
Water table
156cm
Forest
54%
Crops
16%
Urban
0%
Protected
23%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)