HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1080889260
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 : East Gonja, North East Gonja, Pru East
Sub-basin area
259,9km²
Upstream area
259,9km²
Discharge
1,24m³/s
Mean elev.
109m
Administrative coverage
Hydrographic chain
▼ Drains into
▲ Receives from 0 basins
Source / headwater (no upstream basin)
3 dept-equivalent regions (GADM L2)
- 235.0 km²90.8% of basin
- 17.5 km²6.8% of basin
- 6.3 km²2.5% of basin
Computed live · GADM 4.1 × HydroBASINS lev08 × WDPA · cached after first hit.
Species present
1 distinct species · 1 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°
27,7°C
Annual rain
1 198mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,35
Runoff
155mm/an
PET
1 836mm
AET
1 013mm
Mean slope
0,4°
Water table
98cm
Forest
83%
Crops
37%
Urban
0%
Protected
0%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)