HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1080872080
Bassin de Black 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 across 2 countries : Banda, Bole, Gontougo
Sub-basin area
129,7km²
Upstream area
126 137,7km²
Discharge
224,85m³/s
Mean elev.
224m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin · #1080868460478 km²
- Bassin de Mouhoun River23 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 65.0 km²50.3% of basin
- 58.5 km²45.3% of basin
- 5.6 km²4.4% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Bui
IUCN IINational Park
56.30 km² overlap
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
0 distinct species · 0 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°
26,7°C
Annual rain
1 087mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,39
Runoff
160mm/an
PET
1 772mm
AET
920mm
Mean slope
1,4°
Water table
187cm
Forest
100%
Crops
7%
Urban
0%
Protected
43%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)