HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1080888470
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 : North East Gonja, Pru East
Sub-basin area
19,6km²
Upstream area
273 672,3km²
Discharge
699,32m³/s
Mean elev.
75m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 2 basins
- Bassin de Volta881 km²
- Bassin de Volta320 km²
2 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 14.1 km²72.4% of basin
- 5.4 km²27.6% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
0 distinct species · 0 observations
Source: GBIF Occurrence snapshot 2026-05-01.
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 192mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,35
Runoff
156mm/an
PET
1 848mm
AET
1 004mm
Mean slope
0,1°
Water table
5cm
Forest
0%
Crops
14%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)