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
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°
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)