Ontologia

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

Pfafstetter: 14443005

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

3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)

1 intersecting protected areas

  • Mole

    IUCN II

    National 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.

Densité d'observations

18 obs · 5 cellules
Obs. / cellule
≥ 11
11–10
4–10
1–3
< 1

Source : GBIF — observations agrégées par hexagones 0.027° × 0.027° (~22km), filtre précision coordonnée < 10 km. Fond carte : OpenFreeMap · © OpenStreetMap.

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)