HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1080835660
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 2 administrative regions : North Gonja, Tolon
Sub-basin area
595,2km²
Upstream area
99 767,5km²
Discharge
243,66m³/s
Mean elev.
194m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de White Volta845 km²
- Bassin · #1080831650567 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 531.4 km²89.7% of basin
- 61.3 km²10.3% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Mole
IUCN IINational Park
278.79 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
21 distinct species · 29 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°
27,8°C
Annual rain
1 053mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,43
Runoff
107mm/an
PET
1 848mm
AET
884mm
Mean slope
1,1°
Water table
180cm
Forest
56%
Crops
18%
Urban
0%
Protected
21%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)