HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1080842130
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 : North Gonja, Sawla-Tuna-Kalba, Wa East, West Gonja
Sub-basin area
1 848,6km²
Upstream area
3 032,1km²
Discharge
7,75m³/s
Mean elev.
237m
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°
27,4°C
Annual rain
1 048mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,43
Runoff
90mm/an
PET
1 825mm
AET
885mm
Mean slope
1,7°
Water table
250cm
Forest
88%
Crops
17%
Urban
0%
Protected
82%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)