Ontologia

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

76% lakePfafstetter: 14430900

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

3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)

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.

Densité d'observations

17 obs · 5 cellules
Obs. / cellule
≥ 8
8–7
3–7
3–2
< 3

Source : GBIF — observations agrégées par hexagones 0.027° × 0.027° (~22km), filtre précision coordonnée < 10 km. Fond carte : OpenFreeMap · © OpenStreetMap.

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)