HydroBASINS lev08 watershed · #1080893490
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 : Kintampo North, Kintampo South, Wenchi
Sub-basin area
652,5km²
Upstream area
652,8km²
Discharge
4,39m³/s
Mean elev.
266m
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°
26,4°C
Annual rain
1 283mm
Moisture idx (CMI)
-0,26
Runoff
208mm/an
PET
1 730mm
AET
1 082mm
Mean slope
2,1°
Water table
238cm
Forest
96%
Crops
69%
Urban
2%
Protected
21%
HydroATLAS BasinATLAS v10 (Linke et al. 2019) · HydroBASINS lev08 (Lehner & Grill 2013)