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
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°
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)