HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1080848040
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 : Central Gonja, North Gonja, Tolon, West Gonja
Sub-basin area
611,1km²
Upstream area
107 582,9km²
Discharge
266,01m³/s
Mean elev.
120m
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°
28,2°C
Annual rain
1 059mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,43
Runoff
166mm/an
PET
1 858mm
AET
895mm
Mean slope
0,4°
Water table
85cm
Forest
40%
Crops
14%
Urban
0%
Protected
7%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)