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
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de White Volta532 km²
- Bassin de Black Volta147 km²
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 299.8 km²64.8% of basin
- 157.8 km²34.1% of basin
- 5.4 km²1.2% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
10 distinct species · 17 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 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)