HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1080879680
Bassin de 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 : Central Gonja, East Gonja, North East Gonja
Sub-basin area
464,9km²
Upstream area
266 005,4km²
Discharge
686,92m³/s
Mean elev.
107m
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°
28,0°C
Annual rain
1 159mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,37
Runoff
166mm/an
PET
1 848mm
AET
978mm
Mean slope
0,7°
Water table
147cm
Forest
74%
Crops
17%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)