HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1080877440
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
320,6km²
Upstream area
126 709,2km²
Discharge
225,45m³/s
Mean elev.
227m
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°
26,7°C
Annual rain
1 097mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,38
Runoff
164mm/an
PET
1 767mm
AET
928mm
Mean slope
1,0°
Water table
162cm
Forest
99%
Crops
9%
Urban
0%
Protected
84%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)