HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1080873640
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 2 administrative regions : Central Gonja, East Gonja
Sub-basin area
146,6km²
Upstream area
154 022,9km²
Discharge
404,3m³/s
Mean elev.
106m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Black Volta1869 km²
- Bassin de Black Volta139 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 73.0 km²50.0% of basin
- 73.0 km²50.0% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
4 distinct species · 6 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°
28,0°C
Annual rain
1 140mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,38
Runoff
194mm/an
PET
1 850mm
AET
963mm
Mean slope
1,4°
Water table
220cm
Forest
43%
Crops
8%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)