HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1080882040
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 : Bole, Kintampo North, Kintampo South
Sub-basin area
1 380,1km²
Upstream area
141 755,9km²
Discharge
354,24m³/s
Mean elev.
144m
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°
27,5°C
Annual rain
1 199mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,33
Runoff
157mm/an
PET
1 797mm
AET
1 015mm
Mean slope
1,0°
Water table
134cm
Forest
93%
Crops
22%
Urban
2%
Protected
10%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)