HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1080872740
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 4 administrative regions : Bole, Central Gonja, Kintampo North, West Gonja
Sub-basin area
1 083,9km²
Upstream area
145 940,6km²
Discharge
370,71m³/s
Mean elev.
154m
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°
27,6°C
Annual rain
1 107mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,39
Runoff
118mm/an
PET
1 821mm
AET
936mm
Mean slope
1,2°
Water table
189cm
Forest
89%
Crops
19%
Urban
0%
Protected
38%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)