HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1080877640
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
208,8km²
Upstream area
3 022,7km²
Discharge
17,6m³/s
Mean elev.
228m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Zanzan1433 km²
- Bassin de Kodio271 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 129.8 km²62.4% of basin
- 77.9 km²37.5% of basin
- 0.2 km²0.1% of basin
1 intersecting protected areas
Bui
IUCN IINational Park
121.21 km² overlap
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°
26,8°C
Annual rain
1 103mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,37
Runoff
182mm/an
PET
1 762mm
AET
933mm
Mean slope
1,2°
Water table
201cm
Forest
99%
Crops
15%
Urban
0%
Protected
63%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)