HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1080872610
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 : Central Gonja, East Gonja, Kintampo North
Sub-basin area
139,3km²
Upstream area
152 007,2km²
Discharge
394,9m³/s
Mean elev.
97m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Black Volta1605 km²
- Bassin de Black Volta134 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 104.6 km²75.4% of basin
- 34.1 km²24.6% of basin
- 0.1 km²0.1% of basin
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°
28,1°C
Annual rain
1 128mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,39
Runoff
208mm/an
PET
1 852mm
AET
955mm
Mean slope
0,5°
Water table
113cm
Forest
66%
Crops
9%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)