HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1080887560
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 2 administrative regions : East Gonja, North East Gonja
Sub-basin area
320,2km²
Upstream area
272 771,4km²
Discharge
697,54m³/s
Mean elev.
94m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Volta354 km²
- Bassin de Volta41 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 311.3 km²97.6% of basin
- 7.5 km²2.4% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
10 distinct species · 13 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°
27,9°C
Annual rain
1 183mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,36
Runoff
152mm/an
PET
1 847mm
AET
993mm
Mean slope
0,5°
Water table
88cm
Forest
40%
Crops
20%
Urban
2%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)