HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1080873650
Bassin de White 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
531,9km²
Upstream area
111 517,5km²
Discharge
286,16m³/s
Mean elev.
111m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de White Volta359 km²
- Bassin de White Volta331 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 529.3 km²99.9% of basin
- 0.4 km²0.1% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
17 distinct species · 27 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°
28,1°C
Annual rain
1 131mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,39
Runoff
184mm/an
PET
1 853mm
AET
953mm
Mean slope
0,7°
Water table
131cm
Forest
57%
Crops
8%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)